Project Gutenberg 2025-06-09 Public domain in the USA. 55 Meriläinen, Heikki 1847 1939 Merilainen, Heikki Orvon onni $aPorvoo :$bWSOY, $c1925. Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen "Orvon onni" by Heikki Meriläinen is a novel written in the early 20th century. It portrays Finnish rural life through the trials of an orphaned girl, Mimmi (later Minna), after sudden family tragedy. As she passes from a humble homestead to a pastor’s household and then into service with a neighboring gentry family, the story centers on loss, charity, social rank, and a young woman’s resilience. The opening follows a hardworking couple, Pekka and Kerttu, who carve out a lakeside home where their small daughter Mimmi is the joy of the household. During haymaking, a storm breaks and lightning kills Pekka, leaving Kerttu shattered; soon after, illness takes her too, and Mimmi is found and sheltered by Timolan mummo. The child is then taken to the pastor Pilvensalo’s home, where the kindly couple accept her, cherishing even her tear-stained primer as a symbol of her ordeal. As years pass, Minna proves gifted with animals and is sent to work for the Hövelin family, where a young master’s flirtation turns to teasing and the household boys mock her as “Minka.” The section closes with a cruel snowballing on Christmas Eve that injures her eye, underscoring her vulnerability amid classed households and hard fortunes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250607222730merilinen 1925 FI Reading ease score: 51.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fi Finnish fiction -- 20th century PH Text Category: Novels 193758 2025-07-30T07:21:10.894913 text/html 134546 2025-07-30T07:21:16.046836 application/epub+zip 136839 2025-07-30T07:21:12.641845 application/epub+zip 136840 2025-07-30T07:21:11.525851 application/epub+zip 258665 2025-07-30T07:21:18.514835 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243967 2025-07-30T07:21:15.274826 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 170875 2025-07-30T07:21:10.411854 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 151191 2025-06-09T13:15:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12788 2025-07-30T07:21:18.670810 application/rdf+xml 12942 2025-07-30T07:21:12.041853 image/jpeg 3458 2025-07-30T07:21:11.783831 image/jpeg 135622 2025-07-30T07:21:10.911856 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