LagerlöfNils Holgerssons underbara resa
Swedish · Selma Lagerlöf
All of Sweden, seen from the back of a goose.
The opening, set exactly as it reads in the app.
Sweden asked Selma Lagerlöf for a schoolroom geography, and she handed back one of the world’s great books. A boy who is cruel to animals is shrunk to thumb-size and carried off by the wild geese, and for fifty-five chapters the whole country unrolls beneath him — province by province, legend by legend, season by season. Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and this is her gentlest masterpiece: a story about becoming kind, told at the pace of a migration.
Read. Listen. Understand. Speak.
A great book rewards the reader who returns. So between sittings the edition does the quiet work: it remembers the words you save, brings them back before you’d forget, builds a short lesson from lines you’ve already read, and keeps the streak you earn by showing up. Free on your first chapter.
The original and the translation, side by side.
The author’s words on one side, a clear English translation on the other, aligned line by line. Two columns on iPad, stacked on iPhone.
Every line, in a native voice.
Hear how the language actually sounds — its weight and its rhythm — not just how it looks on the page.
Notes for the line you’re on.
Tap any line for the grammar, the words, and the context behind it — written by us, for this text. An editor at your elbow, not a dictionary.
Read aloud, and hear how you did.
Read a line yourself and the edition scores it on your phone — the whole line first, then sound by sound. Your voice never leaves the device.
The particulars.
- The text
- Nils Holgerssons underbara resa, Selma Lagerlöf
- Translation
- Public-domain Swedish (Lagerlöf, d. 1940; published 1906–07). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
- Pricing
- The first chapter free — the complete app, every feature. One unlock for the rest, yours forever — $19.99 at launch, then $29.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.
- Universal
- iPhone & iPad. Side-by-side columns on the larger screen.