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100 1 _aBennett, Arnold,
_d1867-1931
240 1 4 _aThe City of Pleasure. Finnish
245 1 0 _aIlojen kaupunki
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
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-06
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Johanna Kankaanpää
520 _a"Ilojen kaupunki" by Arnold Bennett is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on the dazzling launch of a colossal London amusement park, where visionary conductor-impresario Charles Carpentaria and his moneyed partner Josephus Ilam clash over art, business, and control. Behind the spectacle, media games, jealousy, and a creeping menace suggest that their triumph hides a crime and a secret that could ruin them. The opening of the story introduces the City of Pleasure from a tethered balloon as Carpentaria and Ilam survey their creation, immediately exposing friction between the artist and the financier. A brazen reporter, Smithers, secretly joins them, cuts the tether, and is outwitted when Carpentaria coolly vents gas to force a safe descent. That afternoon Carpentaria, aflame with inspiration, dashes off a “Balloon Lullaby,” then that night conducts a triumphant open-air concert—interrupted by a bullet that grazes his ear. Afterward, Ilam’s domineering mother urges ruthless action, Juliette d’Avray hovers anxiously around Carpentaria, and, near midnight, Carpentaria spies Ilam hauling a black-shrouded burden to a construction dump and burying it; he digs it up to find the drunk he had earlier noticed, now dead, and hides the body, while Ilam returns home shaken. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Kustannusliike Minerva Oy, 1925
653 _aEnglish fiction -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aLindström, Aune,
_d1901-1984
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78375
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