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100 1 _aAndersen, H. C.
_q(Hans Christian),
_d1805-1875
240 1 0 _aBilledbog uden billeder. Finnish
245 1 0 _aKuvaton kuvakirja
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-26
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto, 1915
653 _aMoon -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren's stories, Danish -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aLarin-Kyösti,
_d1873-1948
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76389
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