Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Across Sweden NILS HOLGERSSONS UNDERBARA RESA GENOM SVERIGE

by Selma Lagerlöf

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First edition · Signed

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1906 ; 1907 . Inscribed first edition of the best known book by the first woman and first Swedish person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, beating out fellow nominees Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, and Mark Twain. Near fine. Item #44574 Selma Lagerlöf was a vocal suffragette, a scholar who defied her father's efforts to stifle her education, and a writer who bucked the

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