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 Project Gutenberg 2025-06-06 Public domain in the USA. 63 Ahlqvist, Viktor 1868 1931 Visanko, Viku Leppä, Viku Leppa, Viku Ahlqvist-Visanko, Viktor Bruno Ooperin Epo $aUusikaupunki :$bVakkasuomen Kirjapaino, $c1927. Tuula Temonen Ooperin Epo by Viktor Ahlqvist is a novel written in the early 20th century. It’s a comic picaresque and social satire centered on the famed beggar Efraim “Ooperin Epo” Lehtinen in the broad parish of Moromäki, charting his schemes, friendships, and skirmishes with local authority and manners. His loud, showy friend Vistin Ville, stern clergy and officials, and women like Anna-Liisa and the bright Aina Alinen shape his fortunes. Expect earthy humor, rural color, and pointed jabs at petty power. The opening of the novel frames the tale through a narrator who settles in Moromäki, works for (and marries) the widow Partasuu, then introduces the parish’s marvel: the cunning beggar Epo. We get Epo’s origins in a poor hut, his inherited trade, his reputation, and a sweeping, humorous panorama of Moromäki’s rapakivi fields, forests, lakes, and legends, including a fabulous giant fish he supposedly shot. School and church episodes lampoon village pedagogy and clergy, while quick comic scenes with the doctor and apothecary set the tone. Vistin Ville—a globe-trotting singer and braggart—enters as Epo’s ally and foil, his household a shabby “hotel,” his side hustle as an “advocate” feeding into a farcical paternity suit where, coached by Ville, Epo dodges child support. The narrator notes the bitter outcome for Anna-Liisa and the child even as Epo’s local fame rises. Epo’s seasonal grain “collections” meet the new rationing regime, he hides and sells grain on the sly, gets raided, loses his ration card, and in despair stages a botched suicide before Ville cuts him down. He then drafts a pleading letter to the governor, is comforted by Aina over coffee, and, buoyed by her practical advice and affection, dreams of climbing to local power. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250604003758visanko 1927 FI Reading ease score: 46.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Finnish fiction -- 20th century PH Text Category: Humour Category: Novels 210539 2025-07-30T07:14:05.363968 text/html 146386 2025-07-30T07:14:10.428909 application/epub+zip 148633 2025-07-30T07:14:07.072926 application/epub+zip 148633 2025-07-30T07:14:05.967928 application/epub+zip 254803 2025-07-30T07:14:12.853858 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 238271 2025-07-30T07:14:09.736915 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190067 2025-07-30T07:14:04.994427 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 170383 2025-06-06T13:28:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12940 2025-07-30T07:14:13.020864 application/rdf+xml 10797 2025-07-30T07:14:06.474395 image/jpeg 3004 2025-07-30T07:14:06.215935 image/jpeg 143445 2025-07-30T07:14:05.386903 application/octet-stream application/zip fi.wikipedia