Wichtelmännchens Abenteuer (German Edition)

Ponickau, Hans Wolff von 1889-1957

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Wo in der Stube Da erhob Aslak sich und krabbelte aus dem Graben herauf. E gutes Maulwerk habet-7 i lc1'1 dreck-: Karl Friedrich Weidenbach, Er is umg'fall'n und had kan Maunkerz'r g'machd d. Franz Seraph Huegel, Maulwerk , Maulwerk und Maulfertigkcit! Gut, ich habe das Maulwerk gehalten, aber jetzt, wo ich sehe Joseph von Lauff, Maul, Mund, so fern er zum Essen und bes.

Er hat schon 54 Jahre auf dem Buckel, doch die Rostflecken gehen locker als Patina durch: In der Oldtimer-Garage Maulwerk in Schwend steht eine echte Umij si maulwerk , da ti ne bo smrdelo!! Das sind Deutschlands Spieler: Es ist das klassische Klischee: But many months later, Selma's grandmother was astonished to see that the goose had returned. And he was not alone; during the summer, he had found a mate, a beautiful grey goose, and they were accompanied by half a dozen little goslings. Delighted, Selma's grandmother led the goose family to the barn, where they could eat from the trough with the other fowl.

She closed the door so that they wouldn't fly off again, and ran to tell her stepmother. The stepmother said nothing.

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She just took out the little knife she used for slaughtering geese; and an hour later there was not one goose left alive in the barn. For me, this resonated with what many other people also find the most memorable episode in the book. One night, Nils is woken by a stork, who says that if he follows him he will show him something important. They fly to the seashore, where there is a strange city, quite unlike anything one would expect to find on the Swedish coast. Nils goes in through the huge gate and discovers people dressed in rich clothes from a bygone age.

No one seems to notice him at first. He finds his way to the merchants' quarter. People are selling all kinds of precious goods: And now he realizes that the merchants can see him. They are holding out their wares to him, offering all these treasures. Nils tries to make them understand that he could never afford any of it, he is a poor boy.

But they persist, and using gestures tell him that he can have anything he wants, if he can just give them one small copper coin. He searches his pockets over and over again but finds they are empty. In the end, he leaves the city, and when he turns round again it has disappeared.

Meaning of "Maulwerk" in the German dictionary

The legend is that if they can sell a single thing to a mortal, they will be allowed to return to the world; but they never do. He could so easily have saved all these good people and their city, but he has failed them. It seemed to me that both stories expressed the same feeling with quite unusual clarity. View all 20 comments.

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There are three very good reasons to read this book - the author is first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize, it appears on Le Monde list of best books of 20th century And the fact that the protagonist's picture appears on 20 Swedish krona banknotes. The talking animal surpass those of Kipling's Jungle Book in detail and characterization, and they are also talking about such subjects like deforestation and industrialisation.

And there is additional flavour of histories, local folktales and legends. Aveva circa quattordici anni, era alto, con bei lineamenti e capelli biondi come il lino. Purtroppo, era un perdigiorno. Le sue occupazioni preferite erano dormire e mangiare, oltre a giocare brutti tiri. Quale lezione migliore se non quella di essere all'improvviso trasformato da un coboldo un folletto che secondo la tradizione fa parte degli spiriti della casa , indispettito dai suoi atteggiamenti, lui stesso in un coboldo?

Favolosi paesaggi scandinavi s'intrecciano con episodi che danno spunto all'autrice per impartire lezioni di vita non solo a Nils ma al lettore stesso: Tutto verso un finale incantevole Un libro per bambini di fama mondiale ed un autrice prima donna ad aver ricevuto un Nobel! Mettiti a tavolino, inventa fiabe e novelle come hai sempre fatto, e lascia ad altri la cura di scrivere un libro istruttivo e serio, e in cui soprattutto non si trovi una parola che non sia veritiera! View all 6 comments.

View all 15 comments. Published in , the book actually resulted from a commission from the National Teachers Association to write a geography reader. Author Selma Lagerlof apparently spent three years studying Nature and also investigating folklore and legends from around the country, before writing this book.

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The story itself involves a fourteen year old boy called Nils who is a bit lazy and naughty. Amongst the mischief he gets up to is the rather unpleasant way he likes to hurt animals on his family farm. One day, he is left home to memorise Bible chapters and then falls asleep. Waking, he sees a gnome, which he traps. Eventually, he is also turned into a gnome and able to talk to animals.

With wild geese flying over the farm, a farm goose attempts to fly off with them and, when Nils grabs hold, the two of them end up on an adventure… This book involves a lot of the history and natural world of Sweden, which is a beautiful country. At just over pages and with an illustration at the beginning of each chapter, this is certainly a book for the more fluent child reader; although it is also delightful to read aloud.

It has a lovely, hardback cover, with pictures of flying geese and is an unusual story. A lovely novel for adults and children. This book will give you so much. How is it that Swedish writers always find the right words for expressing children's thoughts and feelings? It is a wonderful piece of literature and should be read to every child.

You can learn a lot from Nils Holgersson. It deals with topics different to speak about, like death, sickness or growing up.

And while writing about it in such a uni This book will give you so much. And while writing about it in such a unique manner, she manages to teach children values like friendship and trust.

View all 3 comments. I was about 10 years old, and looking for something to read on a quiet Sunday afternoon in summer, when I ran across a battered and faded copy of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Originally published in Sweden in , it tells the story of a naughty farmer's lad who has what we would today call attitude, toward his parents, toward farming, and toward the animals on the farm.

He's a terror, in short, and his parents despair of him. An elf turns him into a tiny version of himself just go with I was about 10 years old, and looking for something to read on a quiet Sunday afternoon in summer, when I ran across a battered and faded copy of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. An elf turns him into a tiny version of himself just go with it , and he's nearly eaten, crushed, or lost hundreds of times on his subsequent journeys around Sweden in the company of a marvelous flock of geese. Of course he learns wonderful lessons along the way, about himself, the animals and birds that suddenly loom much larger in his life, and the land he travels through.

Lagerlof was an early environmentalist, as well as an intellectual with theories about bringing up children, and a deep knowledge of Sweden's geography. I was entranced, and tore through the book on that long, rainy afternoon. Then, over the years, I forgot about Nils, until a combination of Sunday, rain, and the search for a good book brought back a faint memory. Google did the rest, and I was delighted to find that the book is still in print, though hardly a bestseller. It's quite brilliant, and while it was originally written to teach Swedish schoolchildren about geography, the descriptions of the places never get in the way of a good story.

It's perfect for your 8 - 10 year old's bedtime reading aloud, though be warned that it contains real peril, death, and something of an education in the hard life of people making a living from the land. It's a book to raise your child's sights, imagination, and IQ. May 18, Phoenix2 rated it liked it Recommends it for: A big book, but full of nice stories of the wonderful adventures of Nils, a boy who was turned tiny and went on a trip on his goose or was it a duck, I can't remember? But what I do remember is that the book had some magical stories to tell.

Especially loved the one with the magical city and the one with the deer. Viagens em que se enriquece, viagens em que se morre de saudade. Uma viagem interior, na vida de um menino cruel, mimado e desobediente, que se transforma, cresce e se torna capaz de sacrificar a sua felicidade pela dos outros. Sobre este livro Oscar Wilde disse com ironia: O livro escreveu-se nela. Initially, I found the pace of the book a bit slow, and thought it might be boring.

This is one of those. View all 5 comments. View all 4 comments. Apr 05, Susan rated it it was amazing. Wonderful fantasy book for children or anyone who has not already read it. I read it several times over the last 70 years. Aug 27, Sookie rated it really liked it Shelves: Sometimes its the perspective of a child that gives adults much needed clarity. Without hyperbole, metaphors or euphemisms, this wonderful tale of adventure manages to show the complexity of nature and the abuse nature has gone through in the hands of humans.

He travels a Sometimes its the perspective of a child that gives adults much needed clarity. He travels across the country Sweden on the back of a gander and understands the nature through the eyes of birds. Thw wonderful adventures of Nils is definitely one of the best books I've read this year. Aug 01, Swati rated it really liked it. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is very unlike many of the other children's classics that I have read in recent times.

For one, it moves slowly.

But after a point you realize that the slowness allows you to take in every detail that Selma Lagerlof lays out for you much like the aerial views that Nils is treated to when he rides with the geese above the clouds. Lagerlof weaves in many delightful Swedish folktales into Nils' adventures, which add great flavour and colour. One of the most impressionable ones for me was where Nils encounters a ghostly town populated by rich, garishly dressed locals. He moves around and is astonished to find people offering him expensive items in exchange for a coin.

Later, he comes to know that it is a city that disappeared because of its greed. It comes alive for an hour every year where the residents have a chance to reclaim their reality if someone buys something for a coin. This is just one of the many moralistic fables that Lagerlof intersperses the picaresque narrative with.

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