Project Gutenberg 2025-03-30 Public domain in the USA. 101 Talvio, Maila 1871 1951 Mikkola, Maila Winter Niniven lapset : $b Romaani $aPorvoo :$bWSOY, $c1915, reprint 1953. Anna Siren and Tapio Riikonen "Niniven lapset: Romaani" by Maila Talvio is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around the Ståhle family, who relocate from their rural estate to a vibrant, unnamed city in hopes of seeking new opportunities and social advancement. The core of the narrative tracks the family's adaptation to urban life, their ambitions, and their attempts to find a place in higher society, focusing especially on the varied aspirations and personalities of the parents and their children. The book explores themes of class mobility, generational conflict, and the allure and risk of modern city life. The opening of the novel introduces the Ståhle family as they awaken on their first morning in the city, having just left their long-time rural estate for an urban apartment. The father, a former landowner and minor official, is filled with a new energy and hope for enjoyment, while his practical wife maintains a cautious outlook. Their children—two practical daughters, and two sons with uncertain futures—are shown adjusting in different ways, with special attention to their dreams, doubts, and the family's intertwined ambitions. A family friend, Bernhard Blundh, soon enters the scene, promising connections to influential city circles and the prospect of profitable ventures. The opening also shifts perspective to the bustling social world of the city, focusing on writers, publishers, and businessmen whose paths cross at the Minerva restaurant, hinting at the networks and machinations shaping the fate of the Ståhle family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20170414090627talvio 1915 FI Reading ease score: 44.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Finnish fiction -- 20th century PH Text Category: Novels 462464 2025-06-30T04:58:27.093187 text/html 243978 2025-06-30T04:58:34.479080 application/epub+zip 248909 2025-06-30T04:58:29.887082 application/epub+zip 233698 2025-06-30T04:58:28.753089 application/epub+zip 438377 2025-06-30T04:58:38.041074 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 413409 2025-06-30T04:58:33.776060 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 424817 2025-06-30T04:58:26.707123 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 405113 2025-03-30T13:34:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14785 2025-06-30T04:58:38.163052 application/rdf+xml 13513 2025-06-30T04:58:29.237183 image/jpeg 3297 2025-06-30T04:58:28.993097 image/jpeg 243431 2025-06-30T04:58:27.130085 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