Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofSelma Lagerlöfwhich are The Treasure and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Selma Lagerlöf ranks among the most naturally gifted of modern storytellers. In 1909 became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Novels selected for this...

Selma Lagerlöf won the Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". During her acceptance speech, she remained humble and told a fantastic story of her father, as she visited him in heaven. In the story, she asks her father for help with the debt she owes and her father explains the debt is from all the people who supported her throughout her career. In 1904, the Academy had awarded her its great gold medal...