- Emil dragging Alfred through a howling blizzard to the doctor's house to save his life. Even the villagers who have previously disapproved of him for all his pranks hail him as a hero after this instance. This scene is considered the second greatest description of a snow storm in Swedish literature (and Sweden being Sweden there are quite a lot of these). The number one spot? The scene where Karl Oskar fights to save his infant son from exposure in Utvandrarna (The Emigrants) by Vilhelm Moberg, acclaimed and often voted the greatest Swedish novel in modern history. Number one greatest novel from the top ten authors. Number two? This children's book; and infinitely more have read Emil.
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