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_aScott, Gabriel, _d1874-1958 |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aStien, eller Kristofer med kvisten. Finnish |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-10-11 | ||
| 508 | _aTuula Temonen | ||
| 520 | _a"Polku" by Gabriel Scott is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Kristofer, a sensitive, unusually tall boy with a stutter, who finds refuge from ridicule in the mountains and dreams of becoming a shepherd. Through lyrical nature writing and village lore, the path up the fell becomes a spiritual guide, tracing themes of cruelty and kindness, belonging, and quiet endurance. The opening of the novel dwells first on the hush of dusk and the winding mountain path, naming lakes, ridges, and the remnants of a tiny stone hut and sheepfold linked to “Vesa-Kristofer,” who planted living switches wherever he walked. The narrative then turns to Kristofer’s childhood: mocked for his height and speech, tormented by a kyttyräselkäinen boy, and belittled by a fault-finding father, he discovers solace building a miniature sheepfold and playing shepherd among rocks and heather. A revelatory moment comes when he sees the seasoned shepherd Nils Vatne driving a flock at sunset; the boy secretly walks at night to a distant fold to ask about becoming a shepherd and is gently encouraged to grow. Later, a bell he treasures betrays his hideaway to the bullies, who destroy his little world and injure his back; bedridden and weakened, Kristofer endures his father’s impatience while clinging to the faint, consoling chime of the bell and to visions of the path that leads into the mountains. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cHelsinki: Holger Schildtin kustannusosakeyhtiö, 1926 |
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| 653 | _aNorwegian fiction -- Translations into Finnish | ||
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_aKailas, Uuno, _d1901-1933 |
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