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100 1 _aLuomanen, Aadolf,
_d1886-1949
245 1 0 _aKun Kyöpelinkellot ne soivat
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
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-19
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Kun Kyöpelinkellot ne soivat : Yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä by Aadolf Luomanen" is a one-act comic stage play written in the early 20th century. The work lampoons village matchmaking, spinsterhood, and gender expectations, following a rural household’s lively name-day gathering where courtship schemes collide and resolve. The story centers on Kaisa, a capable but aging farmer’s daughter, her practical mother, a widower butcher who fancies her, and the simple, pliable bachelor Heikki. The butcher first teases Kaisa about spinsterhood and dangles Heikki as a suitor, while a gaggle of young guests arrives for Kaisa’s name day, flirting, joking, and trying folk divinations about marriage. Heikki shuffles in, awkward and hopeful. The butcher then tricks everyone outside with talk of a wondrous sky to get Kaisa alone, drops the ruse, and proposes sincerely; she accepts. When the others return, the engagement is announced, Heikki blusters in protest, and the evening ends in laughter, song, and a celebratory dance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Oy, 1916
653 _aComedy plays
653 _aOne-act plays
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76527
999 _c117252
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