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100	1		_aPauli, Ebba, _d1873-1941
245	1	0	_aErakko
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-05-21
505	0		_aErakko -- Kertomus Nunnasta -- Vaeltaja -- Paratiisin portilla.
508			_aTuula Temonen
520			_a"Erakko : Ynnä muita kertomuksia" by Ebba Pauli is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. Set in a timeless, Christian-tinged landscape, the stories revolve around a mountain hermit who gives quiet, penetrating counsel to people burdened by desire, doubt, grief, and moral struggle. Through parable-like visits—by villagers, a young priest, and even a noble youth—the book explores happiness, prayer, goodness, suffering, and the nature of divine mercy. The opening of the collection follows a series of pilgrims seeking the hermit’s wisdom. A young woman learns that grasped happiness gained through wrongdoing turns hollow, and later finds enduring peace through sacrifice and obedience to the inner voice. Another woman, long certain her prayers were ignored, discovers that hope and readiness to receive can unlock the love she begged for in marriage. A restless priest who feels life offers only “crumbs” is taught, via the image of two streams and a steady river, to make his people’s joys and sorrows his own. A cheerful traveler who dismisses suffering is shown its role in truthfulness, growth, and solidarity, and is told to “live” suffering rather than curse it. A devout woman striving to be good is told to be like a flower—receive rather than strain—and later recognizes God’s power quietly at work within her, guided by calm, unhurried action and an inward will aligned before God. A grieving mother, haunted by her drowned son’s sins, is consoled with a vision of God as Father beyond death and of purifying pain rather than eternal despair. Finally, a young noble bound for the Crusades, denied the pilgrim’s cross, seeks the hermit’s testing of motives as their conversation begins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cPorvoo: WSOY, 1925
653			_aSwedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish
653			_aShort stories, Swedish -- Translations into Finnish
700	1		_aPekkola, Helmi, _d1886-1934
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76133
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