Cudowna podróż, Tom 2

Nils Holgersson #2

by Selma Lagerlöf, Eluta Kidacka (Illustrator)

Cudowna podróż to pełna przygód powieść dla dzieci. Świat przedstawiony pełen jest tajemniczych postaci. Głównym bohaterem jest niesforny czternastoletni chłopiec mieszkający na wsi. Pewnego dnia zostaje na niego rzucony zły czar… Niniejsze wydanie zostało wzbogacone pięknymi ilustracjami.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Female Authors, Swedish Literature, Adventure

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1907

About the author

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.

Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.

As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years before her first novel Gösta Berling's Saga was published. As her writer career progressed she would keep up a correspondance with some of her former female collegues for almost her entire life.

Lagerlöf never married and was almost certainly a lesbian (she never officially stated that she was, but most later researchers believe this to be the case). For many years her constant companion was fellow writer Sophie Elkan, with whom she traveled to Italy and the Middle East. Her visit to Palestine and a colony of Christians there, would inspire her to write Jerusalem, her story of Swedish farmers converting into a evangelical Christian group and travelling to "The American Colony" in Jerusalem.

Lagerlöf was involved in both women issues as well as politics. She would among other things help the Jewish writer Nelly Sachs to come to Sweden and donated her Nobel medal to the Finnish war effort against the Soviet union.

Outside of Sweden she's perhaps most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).

Reviews

[Brianna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part 2 of Thumbietot's adventures around Sweden, and just as delightful as Part 1. I wish there were an American equivalent of Selma Lagerlof, writing textbooks about American geography and folklore, packaged as a children's novel.

[Sergei Ter-Tumasov (Սերգեյ Տեր-Թումասով) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Вторая часть, как и первая, хорошо служит цели, для которой она была написана, но как художественное произведение, а уж тем более сказка, вызывает одну зевоту (как и большинство учебников).

[prcardi]

Read-aloud with a ten-year-old. My little child readers do not like to give up on a series, and though Nils was not one of their favorites, they still had a fondness for it and anticipated the sequel. This sequel is more of a short story collection adding in snippets to or between the starting book. It definitely cannot be read apart from the first, but some portions of the first are reproduced in this Further Adventures text. The highlight of the book was undoubtedly the novelette at the beginning. It was rich in language and description, provided interesting animal characters and scenarios, and a curious problem and solution. It was very unlike the Nils stories, and the connection to the Nils stories only comes belatedly (and quite unnecessarily). I feel comfortable claiming that his was not originally written as a Nils story and was only later added to give the collection more heft. The children did have some fun piecing together when some events must have happened and returned to the original to try to put things in their proper chronology. So it was a successful gift and entertaining read.

[Keenan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second book in the Nils collection, this one has all the magic of the first with a stronger focus on environmental issues and the balance of man and nature. It is perhaps lacking a bit in the descriptive quality of places as one gets the impression that the author (mind you this was the 1900s) had a stronger familiarity with the South and its rhythms. All in all an excellent collection of stories and tales that really gives one a peek into the Swedish psyche in addition to all the landscape and animal descriptions.

[ruda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Już nigdy nie spojrzę na gęsi tak samo, przynajmniej w tym tomie przestali bullingować lisy

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Previously read to Molly. Finished Nils Book 1 with Shannon tonight and cracked the cover on Book 2!

Molly and I like "Further Adventures" even better than Book 1. Hoping the same is true this time around with Shannon!

[Annemarie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very similar in episodic structure to the first book, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. The stories in Further Adventures, however, are often slightly darker and more morally ambiguous than in the first book.

[Diana Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

♥♥♥Lovely!♥♥♥ I really, really love everything about this book!

[Selene · Rating 3 out of 5]

En ocasiones me sentía encantada por la manera en que la autora incluía cuentos tradicionales de su país en la historia de forma que se relacionaban con las aventuras de Nils, pero la mayor parte de las veces lo sentía forzado y me parecía una gran desviación de la historia principal.
Esperaba encontrarme con un protagonista genuinamente malvado y malicioso, pero no, es un niño cualquiera. Demasiado extrovertido y temerario, pero no más. Hasta me cayó bien el muchacho.
Quizá fue cosa de mi edición y traducción, pues no me pareció un libro infantil adecuado para menores de 12, al menos por la narración; en cuanto a la historia es perfecta para peques de 6 en adelante.
Recomendación de mi padre. Uno de sus primeros libros. Por fin me quité este pendiente.
Buena lectura.

[Lulu Valencia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hermosa novela infantil que atraves de leyendas te va explicando la geografía de Suecia así como los usos y costumbres. No había leído un libro de la autora Selma Lagerlöf quien fue la primera mujer en obtenerlo.

[Kathy Dalquist · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun book and I learned a lot about Sweden and it's people. It is a children's book but well worth reading as an adult.

[Maria Jose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un libro precioso y entrañable.

[Anna.C.]

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[Ola · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.4

[Alice Faerie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved part two and the continuation of Nils’ adventures!!