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100 1 _aStretton, Hesba,
_d1832-1911
240 1 0 _aAlone in London. Finnish
245 1 0 _aYksin Lontoossa
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-29
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _aYksin Lontoossa by Hesba Stretton is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set amid the streets around Holborn and the Strand, it follows gentle old newsvendor James Oliver, who unexpectedly becomes guardian to a deserted little girl, Dolly, and bonds with a street boy, Tony. The story promises a tender, faith-infused portrait of poverty, loneliness, and small acts of kindness in the great city. The opening of the novel shows a sweltering London evening, Oliver’s cramped shop-home, and his wistful talk with his sister about their past and his estranged daughter, Susanna. After Charlotta leaves, a woman abandons Dolly in the shop; Oliver keeps the child despite Tony’s offer to take her. A note reveals Dolly is Susanna’s daughter, sent to mend the rift, but another letter soon explains Susanna has chosen to follow her soldier husband to India, leaving Dolly in Oliver’s care. Oliver’s joy mixes with worry over age, poverty, and failing memory, while Tony becomes a nightly lodger, absorbs Oliver’s simple Christian comfort, prays for honest work, and—helped by Dolly buying him a broom—finally starts sweeping a busy crossing and earns his first coins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: K. E. Holm, 1876
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aOrphans -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPoor -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPoverty -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aGrandfathers -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aHomeless children -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aReconciliation -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Hospitals -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aWuorinen, Olli,
_d1842-1917
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76415
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