Project Gutenberg 2025-04-06 Public domain in the USA. 76 Stockton, Frank R. 1834 1902 Stockton, Francis Richard Stockton, Frank Richard Alpi, Eero 1885 1933 The casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine. Finnish Hupaisa juttu $aHämeenlinna :$bArvi A. Karisto, $c1912. Tapio Riikonen "Hupaisa juttu" by Frank R. Stockton is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story appears to be an adventure or light-hearted survival tale, focusing on a shipwreck and its aftermath. The main characters are two uniquely practical and spirited American widows, Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, along with a male narrator who becomes their companion. The narrative's tone suggests a blend of wit, humor, and resourcefulness as these characters navigate unexpected dangers and odd circumstances during their journey. The opening of the book introduces the narrator’s journey from San Francisco to Yokohama, where he becomes acquainted with Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, two middle-aged rural American women traveling together. The story quickly turns dramatic as their ship collides with another vessel and begins to sink, prompting an orderly but tense evacuation. Through a combination of quick thinking and stubbornness, the narrator and the two women escape in a lifeboat that unfortunately proves to be leaky. Their ordeal on the open sea is described with both tension and humor as they struggle with the leaking boat, rationing food, and using makeshift survival skills. Despite the danger, the women’s down-to-earth attitudes and resourcefulness stand out, especially when they finally reach an unfamiliar island that seems to have signs of human habitation but is, for the moment, abandoned. The opening effectively sets the tone for an amusing and character-driven adventure about resilience, wit, and unlikely companionship in the face of adversity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250128010019stockton 1912 FI Reading ease score: 47.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Humorous stories Survival -- Fiction Widows -- Fiction Adventure stories Shipwrecks -- Fiction Castaways -- Fiction American fiction -- Translations into Finnish PS Text Category: Humour Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature 364753 2025-06-30T05:09:56.714829 text/html 195476 2025-06-30T05:10:02.427778 application/epub+zip 200208 2025-06-30T05:09:58.475823 application/epub+zip 200208 2025-06-30T05:09:57.375806 application/epub+zip 375250 2025-06-30T05:10:05.421811 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 355311 2025-06-30T05:10:01.754830 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 332331 2025-06-30T05:09:56.375812 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 312617 2025-04-06T14:24:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17468 2025-06-30T05:10:05.554755 application/rdf+xml 13905 2025-06-30T05:09:57.859819 image/jpeg 3704 2025-06-30T05:09:57.615812 image/jpeg 193125 2025-06-30T05:09:56.743819 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 en.wikipedia