Project Gutenberg 2025-08-13 Public domain in the USA. 192 Rinta, Matti 1871 1908 Kertomuksia Etelä-Pohjanmaalta $aHelsinki :$bOtava, $c1893. Saapaskauppa ja harjakaiset -- Mäkitupalaisten hääretki -- Pyhänä -- Karkurien kohtalo -- Eräänä aatto-iltana. Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen "Kertomuksia Etelä-Pohjanmaalta" by Matti Rinta is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. Set among farmers and laborers in South Ostrobothnia, it portrays village life with its celebrations, temptations, and communal pressures. Early tales follow figures like Tokkalan Samppo, the drink-prone Kaisan-Antti, and the striving Mäkituvan couple Hemppa and Maija, using their choices to explore pride, alcohol, and social standing. The voice mixes lively incident with clear moral realism. The opening of the collection first tells how Samppo buys showy boots, hosts a boisterous “harjakaiset,” and, amid drunken card play and a brawl on the village road, is fatally stabbed by Antti, who confesses and is sent away—briefly sobering the village before old habits return. It then follows Hemppa and Maija as they sell their cow and run up credit to attend a distant niece’s wedding, trying to look prosperous; Hemppa drinks, squanders money, suffers humiliation at an inn, and on the ride home overturns the cart, shattering his leg and pushing the family into lasting poverty and poor relief. At the start of the next story, Pyhänä, a young man, Jussi, wakes on a clear Sunday and lies listening to the farm, reluctant to obey his father and longing for freedom, setting up tensions of youth, duty, and rural routine. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250810033447rinta 1893 FI Reading ease score: 50.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fi Short stories, Finnish Finnish fiction -- 19th century Pohjanmaa (Finland) -- Fiction PH Text Category: Short Stories 221431 2025-09-30T08:44:32.214921 text/html 151600 2025-09-30T08:44:38.598953 application/epub+zip 153802 2025-09-30T08:44:35.204964 application/epub+zip 138956 2025-09-30T08:44:34.081891 application/epub+zip 340348 2025-09-30T08:44:41.033860 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 324276 2025-09-30T08:44:37.923931 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 192508 2025-09-30T08:44:31.787911 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 172741 2025-08-13T13:56:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15250 2025-09-30T08:44:41.168874 application/rdf+xml 17712 2025-09-30T08:44:34.592908 image/jpeg 4347 2025-09-30T08:44:34.331895 image/jpeg 151255 2025-09-30T08:44:32.234945 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