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100 1 _aRinta, Matti,
_d1871-1908
245 1 0 _aKertomuksia Etelä-Pohjanmaalta
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 2025-08-13
505 0 _aSaapaskauppa ja harjakaiset -- Mäkitupalaisten hääretki -- Pyhänä -- Karkurien kohtalo -- Eräänä aatto-iltana.
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Kertomuksia Etelä-Pohjanmaalta" by Matti Rinta is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. Set among farmers and laborers in South Ostrobothnia, it portrays village life with its celebrations, temptations, and communal pressures. Early tales follow figures like Tokkalan Samppo, the drink-prone Kaisan-Antti, and the striving Mäkituvan couple Hemppa and Maija, using their choices to explore pride, alcohol, and social standing. The voice mixes lively incident with clear moral realism. The opening of the collection first tells how Samppo buys showy boots, hosts a boisterous “harjakaiset,” and, amid drunken card play and a brawl on the village road, is fatally stabbed by Antti, who confesses and is sent away—briefly sobering the village before old habits return. It then follows Hemppa and Maija as they sell their cow and run up credit to attend a distant niece’s wedding, trying to look prosperous; Hemppa drinks, squanders money, suffers humiliation at an inn, and on the ride home overturns the cart, shattering his leg and pushing the family into lasting poverty and poor relief. At the start of the next story, Pyhänä, a young man, Jussi, wakes on a clear Sunday and lies listening to the farm, reluctant to obey his father and longing for freedom, setting up tensions of youth, duty, and rural routine. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1893
653 _aShort stories, Finnish
653 _aFinnish fiction -- 19th century
653 _aPohjanmaa (Finland) -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76680
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