Project Gutenberg 2025-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 132 Leino, Eino 1878 1926 Leino, Armas Eino Leopold Lonnbohm, Armas Eino Leopold Lönnbohm, Armas Eino Leopold Sepeteus, Kanttori Vilkastus, Mikko Lönnbohm, Armas Einar Leopold Päiväperhoja : $b Pieniä tarinoita $aHelsinki :$bEero Erkko, Päivälehden kirjapaino, $c1903. Noita -- Vanha markiisi -- Murhamies -- Erkki Persson -- Sipo Nevalainen -- Alkibiades -- Metsätorpassa -- Rakkaus -- Sielu -- Unelma -- Huoleton -- Itse -- Meri ja päivä -- Runoilija -- Kultapala -- Totuus ja valhe -- Järjestys -- Lemminkäisen huomen -- Tuhmuuden ylistys -- Professorin ruokalepo -- Peractum est -- Syksyinen ystäväni -- Junavaunussa -- Runottaren kosijat -- Halla (runo) -- Yleinen mielipide -- Niniven lapsi -- Lemminkäinen ja Pohjan neiti -- Ikiliikkuja -- Laulu vuorilammella. Jari Koivisto "Päiväperhoja : Pieniä tarinoita" by Eino Leino is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. In brief, it gathers fables, parables, prose poems, and satirical sketches that range from Finnish folk life to antiquity and contemporary society. The pieces probe love, conscience, power, art, and national identity with a voice that moves between lyrical tenderness, moral irony, and sharp social critique. The opening of this collection strings together compact vignettes: a pastor tries to wrest secret lore from a dying village witch for the sake of national heritage; an “old marquis” rises when death bells toll—an allegory of a nation’s revival; a hidden murderer prospers while an innocent man is condemned; a fallen customs clerk drifts into humble service; a peasant under Simo Hurtta’s rule chooses harsh loyalty with tragic reverberations; Alkibiades and a temple maiden miss each other through pride and misreading; and a forest cottage story turns into a stark, unseen catastrophe. A second run of prose miniatures meditates, in quick, lyrical strokes, on love, the soul, lost dreams, cheerfully roaming thought, the danger of seeking a self apart from love, the sea and the sun as lovers, the poet’s integrity, true worth versus cheap glitter, Truth and Lie, tidy “order” that kills ideas, and a bright morning of Lemminkäinen. The tone then shifts to essays and satire: a hymn to “tuhmuus” (complacent stupidity), a professor’s postprandial dream in which Homeros and other greats seek modern credentials, a warning against weary elders declaring the struggle “already done,” a crisp autumn walk debating Finland’s cultural season, a whispered train talk about politics, and a closing scene where Realists refit the Muse in reform dress and put her on a bicycle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250611234415leino 1903 FI Reading ease score: 50.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fi Finnish literature PH Text Category: Short Stories 147480 2025-07-30T07:29:41.658378 text/html 123035 2025-07-30T07:29:46.402339 application/epub+zip 122915 2025-07-30T07:29:43.466386 application/epub+zip 122915 2025-07-30T07:29:42.334362 application/epub+zip 233256 2025-07-30T07:29:48.908872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210175 2025-07-30T07:29:45.758367 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 126391 2025-07-30T07:29:41.382368 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 106662 2025-06-14T14:14:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13904 2025-07-30T07:29:49.034850 application/rdf+xml 11468 2025-07-30T07:29:42.913377 image/jpeg 3085 2025-07-30T07:29:42.661358 image/jpeg 120835 2025-07-30T07:29:41.671388 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