02880cam a22003253u 4500 78058 UtSlPG 20260610134817.0 m cr n 260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fi iso639-1 PH Lehtonen, Joel, 1881-1934 Lintukoto Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2026-02-27 Ero ja kohtaaminen -- Rotanlumooja -- Kesäisen erakkomajani historiaa y.m. -- Miten Krik toi kesän -- Auringon vertauskuva ilmestyy taloon -- Kukosta lisää -- Yhä kukosta. Matti alkaa toimensa -- Vieraita ja juhlia -- Nyt jutellaan taas Matista! -- "Ritari Matvei" -- Kauneuden tuokio, mitä enempää voisin vaatia? -- Muurahaiset -- Heinäkuun kuutamo -- "Hammam" -- Tiiranpoika -- Lauantaikellot -- Viikatemies -- Elokuun kuutamo -- Jäähyväiset Lintukodolle -- "Vekkulit ja kekkuli!" Tapio Riikonen "Lintukoto" by Joel Lehtonen is a collection of diary entries written in the early 20th century. It is a lyrical, gently humorous meditation on solitude and nature, following a first‑person narrator who treats his tiny lakeside island retreat as a beloved companion while sharing domestic scenes with his wife. The pieces dwell on the pleasures of simple work, the struggle to shut out modern noise, and the rapturous smallness of summer’s details. The opening of the work traces the narrator’s spring return to his “Birdland,” first comparing their reunion to an awkward meeting with an old lover before affection rekindles as the landscape greens. He recounts a comic‑grim episode of wintertime devastation by rats—imagined as summoned by a Pied Piper—that shredded linens, emptied a flour sack from a rafter, gnawed paper lanterns, and left a few dead in a vat. He then sketches the island’s setting and lore, remembers the solitary fisherman who owned it before dying in the sauna, and explains how he remade the place as a quiet “monastery” of his own: few newspapers, much reading and reflection, planting fruit trees, building paths, and seeking peace. After weeks of cold winds he dreams of a sprite named Krik and a “wind harmony,” wakes elated, and steps outside to find summer at last—apple trees in dazzling bloom, fresh green leaves shining with rain, and a chorus of birdsong filling the yard. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Helsinki: Otava, 1929 Short stories, Finnish Finnish fiction -- 20th century https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78058 118778 118778