Project Gutenberg 2013-02-03 Public domain in the USA. 131 Gummerus, K. J. (Kaarle Jaakko) 1840 1898 Gummerus, Kaarle Jaakko Gummerus, Karl Jacob Gummerus, Karl Jakob Haudankaivajan kertomuksia Alkulause -- Luutnantin tytär -- Kilmalan seksmanni -- Mörkö-Maija -- Hänen kostonsa -- Kirje haudasta -- Iso-isän testamentti -- Papinvaali. E-text prepared by Tapio Riikonen "Haudankaivajan kertomuksia" by K. J. Gummerus is a collection of stories written in the late 19th century. The book revolves around the experiences and reflections of a gravedigger, who deeply cares for the graves he tends and the stories of the deceased he buries. Through narratives that intertwine themes of love, loss, and societal expectations, the tales explore the lives of various characters connected to the graveyard. The opening of the work introduces the gravedigger as a compassionate figure devoted to his labor. He is depicted as a caretaker of the dead, spending his days lovingly maintaining the graves and sharing stories about the people buried there. His character elicits curiosity and respect from a narrative observer, who frequently visits him in the graveyard to learn about the lives of the departed. The gravedigger’s reflections set the tone for the subsequent stories, which promise to delve into the complex emotions tied to life and death through the individual tales of those he remembers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 42.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Finnish fiction Short stories, Finnish PH Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories 370654 2025-06-22T18:23:17.261088 text/html 370471 370404 2024-10-17T15:31:20.750578 2023-09-18T09:25:52.610023 text/html text/html 214121 2025-06-22T18:23:34.469038 application/epub+zip 218978 2025-06-22T18:23:26.397103 application/epub+zip 206933 2025-06-22T18:23:21.235112 application/epub+zip 440418 2025-06-22T18:23:41.568974 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 424552 2025-06-22T18:23:33.645006 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 374154 2022-09-19T08:09:09.791828 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 346327 2025-06-22T18:23:16.786081 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 326566 2024-10-23T13:52:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 11527 2025-06-22T18:23:41.711964 application/rdf+xml 18192 2025-06-22T18:23:25.592031 image/jpeg 4612 2025-06-22T18:23:25.299031 image/jpeg 216404 2025-06-22T18:23:17.295080 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fi.wikipedia