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100 1 _aLie, Bernt,
_d1868-1916
240 1 0 _aSvend Bidevind. Finnish
245 1 0 _aSven Hankatuuli
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 2025-10-30
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Sven Hankatuuli" by Bernt Lie is a school novel written in the early 20th century. It follows an average, quick-witted but habitually unprepared boy, Sven, as he navigates strict classrooms, fragile pride, and the tug-of-war between talent and effort. Key figures include the sarcastic teacher Svenningsen, the fair and steady headmaster Holst, the principled classmate Anton Bech, and the competitive Simon Selmer. The story focuses on school life, friendship, and the moral fallout when small evasions grow into real trouble. The opening of the novel introduces Sven’s middling standing and his knack for guessing, excuses, and daydreaming, which earn him both a teasing nickname and teachers’ distrust. When Svenningsen finds and publicly reads Sven’s Columbus poem, refuses to return it, and strikes him for protesting, Anton Bech calmly defends Sven; later, headmaster Holst handles the matter with tact, returns the poem, and quietly wins Sven’s admiration, while a tentative friendship forms between Sven and Anton. The narrative then shifts to Sven’s worsening math troubles: a detention, ominous notes, and a letter from Holst advising private tutoring that Sven panics over, secretly opens and burns, then covers with lies about getting help and by buying a new gradebook. To keep the pretense, he copies Anton’s Saturday homework from the unlocked cabinet; after an ink mishap, he rewrites solutions from Simon Selmer’s work and unknowingly reproduces a telltale error, leading Lange to accuse Anton of cheating and lying, while Sven sits silent, gripped by fear as his deception begins to ensnare others. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoo: WSOY, 1957
653 _aSchools -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBoys -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren's stories, Norwegian -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aVoionmaa, Eino,
_d1872-1928
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77156
999 _c117878
_d117878