The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson with the Wild Geese through Sweden

"The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson with the Wild Geese through Sweden" is the most magical textbook in the world. The writer and teacher Selma Lagerlöf intended to create an engaging guide for schoolchildren about the geography and culture of Sweden, its past and present. But the story of a boy who turned into a gnome and flew across the whole country on the back of a goose became a beloved fairy tale for millions of children around the world.
The full translation of this fairy tale, made by Faina Kharitonovna Zolotarevskaya, has not been reissued for over forty years; it is distinguished by its accuracy and careful approach to the original, as well as a sense of style and measure. The illustrations by Natalia Kondratova remarkably correspond to the spirit of Lagerlöf's book; they are wonderful and precise at the same time.
The edition is equipped with detailed and understandable comments that will help understand the life, customs, and beliefs of Sweden at the beginning of the last century, as well as postwords about the history of the creation of the fairy tale about Nils, its significance for literature, and about the history of translations of this book into Russian.