02459cam a22002893u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500210014326400510016430000470021533600260026233700260028833800360031450000310035050800450038152016200042653400460204665300340209285600430212677399UtSlPG20260610134807.0mcr n260607r20251908utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPH1 aTarvas, Toivo,d1883-193710aIsä ja tytär 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-04  aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen  a"Isä ja tytär" by Toivo Tarvas is a play written in the early 20th century. Set in contemporary Helsinki, it follows Leila, a musically gifted working-class girl, and her volatile, alcohol-dependent father Valtonen as they navigate poverty, grief, and the gaze of a judgmental society. Neighbors, petty officials, and students hover between condescension, opportunism, and genuine care, sharpening the drama’s class contrasts. It is a story of a fragile parent–child bond and a young woman’s vulnerability amid urban hardship.

The opening of the play moves from a dim tenement wake to the bustle of the Esplanade and a bourgeois parlor. First, Leila keeps vigil by her mother’s coffin, comforts her timid friend, and recounts the death, while Emblundska organizes the peijaiset; Valtonen barges in drunk with a crony, bullies Leila for her mother’s earrings, and swings between bragging affection and cruelty as mourners sing and the coffin is carried out. Next, Leila sells lemonade, endures rowdy schoolboys and a wary policeman, hears Emblundska and Nanna boast of new status, and becomes the focus of two young men: one (Albert) warns her, the other (Savander) presses his advantage—culminating in his forcing himself into the kiosk and a violent struggle that Albert interrupts by smashing the window. The third act begins in the Pahlmans’ parlor, where domestic fuss and gossip about Senate work, social climbing, Leila’s progress at the music school, and her father’s decline frame the class-bound world into which the girl has been drawn. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cPorvoo: WSOY, 1908  aFinnish drama -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77399