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100 1 _aValkonen, Tatu,
_d1885-1945
245 1 0 _aVanhaa viinaa uudessa leilissä
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-22
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _aVanhaa viinaa uudessa leilissä by Tatu Valkonen is a collection of satirical essays written in the early 20th century. The pieces lampoon everyday Finnish life and modern fads through tall tales, mock editorials, and cheerful exaggeration, shifting from rural manors to city parlors and even American shores. Expect a wry, first‑person narrator skewering social pretensions, domestic service woes, youthful crazes, pseudo‑science, and the cult of progress in brisk, joke‑packed vignettes. The opening of the collection launches with a farcical country episode: a prized trotter is taken on a forbidden night drive, a sleigh is destroyed under a train, and the damage is “paid” by swapping in a portrait commission—painted with inspired shortcuts and guesswork. It then pivots to mock‑serious proposals for a rigorous “home‑help school,” a family saga where school trips bankrupt a father, and a scolding of “modern youth” that collapses into a slapstick jazz‑dance fall. Further sketches include a ballroom pear chased like a football with disastrous courtship results, a fable of two leopards where a bullied male trains up and restores balance, a vegetarian guru outfoxed by his meat‑craving test subject, and two American send‑ups—one groom who repeatedly misses his ship and another marriage renegotiated via lawyers and yachts. The excerpt closes by introducing a tongue‑in‑cheek list of prenuptial rules as the supposed key to marital happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cJyväskylä: K. J. Gummerus Osakeyhtiö, 1929
653 _aFinnish wit and humor
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78007
999 _c118727
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