02251cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000500011324000370016324500220020026400510022230000470027333600260032033700260034633800360037250000310040850800190043952012400045853400640169865300290176265300600179170000310185185600430188276389UtSlPG20260610134752.0mcr n260607r20251915utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aAndersen, H. C.q(Hans Christian),d1805-187510aBilledbog uden billeder. Finnish10aKuvaton kuvakirja 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aRelease date is 2025-06-26 aTapio Riikonen a"Kuvaton kuvakirja" by H. C. Andersen is a collection of lyrical vignettes written in the mid-19th century. Framed as nightly visits from the Moon to a poor young painter, it presents brief, poetic scenes from around the world that he “paints” with words. The pieces dwell on love, sorrow, faith, art, and the small marvels of everyday life, with the Moon and the painter serving as a gentle guiding pair. The opening of this work introduces the lonely painter who finds companionship in the Moon and vows to record its nightly tales as a “picture book without pictures.” Night by night, the Moon shares swift, empathetic glimpses: an Indian girl sending a lamp down the Ganges for her beloved, a child seeking forgiveness from a chicken, a dying woman forced to the window, makeshift theaters and sharp-tongued critics, memories of revolution in Paris, Greenland dances and sea burial, the haunted grace of Pompeii and Venice, emigrants on the heath, a grieving clown, a chimney sweep exulting atop a roof, and quiet scenes of Rome’s ruins and desert caravans. These short sketches shift rapidly in place and tone, building a mosaic of human joy and grief as viewed from above. (This is an automatically generated summary.) pOriginally published:cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto, 1915 aMoon -- Juvenile fiction aChildren's stories, Danish -- Translations into Finnish1 aLarin-Kyösti,d1873-194840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76389