Project Gutenberg 2025-06-15 Public domain in the USA. 75 Malmberg, Aino 1865 1933 Malmberg, Aino M. Perenius Voimatonta väkeä $aHelsinki :$bOtava, $c1927. Kohtalon oikkuja -- Lontoon suomalaisia -- Hale Makani – tuulien tupa -- Muuan katolinen pappi -- Yhteiskunnan pylväitä ja hylkyjä -- Entisen taistelun ajoilta -- Marttyyrit -- Tekokukkia. Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen Voimatonta väkeä by Aino Malmberg is a collection of life sketches and short stories written in the early 20th century. Drawn from real people and situations, the pieces dwell on fate, moral choice, and the quiet heroism or frailty of ordinary lives, often among Finns abroad. Expect intimate, observational portraits—of love's detours, community bonds, and the pull of home—told with warmth and clear-eyed restraint. The opening of the book sets out its method in a foreword: the “strong” draw life’s outlines, while the “powerless” supply light, shade, and color—these are true-life sketches, sometimes lightly altered. The first story follows Ella, a gifted London typist entangled with a married editor, who leaves for New York, chooses motherhood on her own terms, and finds her deepest, enduring attachment in her son John; a parallel thread introduces the reserved civil servant Stuart Lane, whose late-awakening love for Judith and a hinted, missed connection with Ella underscore the caprice of fate. Next comes a lively essay on Finns in London, contrasting West End pretensions with East End seafaring grit, praising the merimieskirkko, recounting a humorous dignitary’s visit, and sketching “Janne,” a tireless fixer who keeps his community afloat. The section closes by beginning a new vignette in Honolulu, where the house “Hale Makani” and its keepers, Polly and Ruth, promise yet another far-flung human tableau. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20241218011731malmberg 1927 FI Reading ease score: 40.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Finnish literature PH Text Category: Short Stories Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches 316214 2025-07-30T07:34:55.768391 text/html 195369 2025-07-30T07:35:02.838832 application/epub+zip 198154 2025-07-30T07:34:58.908366 application/epub+zip 178263 2025-07-30T07:34:57.667353 application/epub+zip 373700 2025-07-30T07:35:05.718805 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356029 2025-07-30T07:35:02.133866 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 295053 2025-07-30T07:34:55.438377 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 275338 2025-06-15T13:41:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13264 2025-07-30T07:35:05.874793 application/rdf+xml 16170 2025-07-30T07:34:58.241331 image/jpeg 3989 2025-07-30T07:34:57.979346 image/jpeg 195083 2025-07-30T07:34:55.797370 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 en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia