02280cam a22003373u 4500 76389 UtSlPG 20260610134752.0 m cr n 260607r20251915utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fi iso639-1 PZ Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 Billedbog uden billeder. Finnish Kuvaton kuvakirja Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-06-26 Tapio Riikonen "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.) Originally published: Hämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto, 1915 Moon -- Juvenile fiction Children's stories, Danish -- Translations into Finnish Larin-Kyösti, 1873-1948 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76389 117114 117114