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Rh where one ends, and the other begins. It is a classic... A masterwork."

From Gefle Posten: "The author is here—as always, the great story-teller, the greatest, perhaps, in Scandinavian literature since the days of Hans Christian Andersen. To children whose imaginations have been fostered by Ashbjörnsen, Andersen, and 'Thousand-and-One Nights,' Nils Holgersson will always be precious, as well as to those of us who are older."

From Göteborg Posten: "Selma Lagerlöf has given us a good lift onward. She is the one whom we, in these days, place first and foremost... Among the other work which she has done for us, and for our children, she has re-created our geography for us... Upon imagination's road she has sought to open the child-heart to an understanding of animals, while she tactfully and playfully drops into little knowledge-thirsty minds a comprehensive understanding of the habits and characteristics of different animals. She carries us with her ... and shapes for us—old and young—a new childhood in tune with the