Project Gutenberg 2025-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 90 Wuori, Martti 1858 1934 Wuori, M. Hirttonuora eli Asarias Pöllänen leskimiehenä : $b Kolmenäytöksinen huvinäytelmä $aHämeenlinna :$bArvi A. Karisto Oy, $c1928. Tapio Riikonen "Hirttonuora eli Asarias Pöllänen leskimiehenä" by Martti Wuori is a three-act stage comedy written in the early 20th century. It lampoons small-village matchmaking and moral posturing as a young widower, Asarias Pöllänen, becomes the target of two determined spinsters, Sanna Tossavainen and Santra Saurénska, while his crafty friend Ville Vilkki and the blunt Reverend Tobias Saxbäck try to restore order. Set in late 19th-century Savo, the play blends grief and farce into a brisk tussle over love, reputation, and peace of mind. At the start of the play, Asarias sits in his farmhouse sunk in grief for his wife and newborn, even toying with the noose, as Ville tries to console him and fend off suitors. Sanna bursts in with flirtation and domestic zeal, Santra follows with pious hymns and “comfort,” and their rivalry erupts in barbs, boasting, and competitive singing while Ville plots to take both to the parsonage to end the siege. The action shifts to the rectory, where the amused but stern rovasti hears Sanna and Santra in turn, rebukes them for vanity, slander, and unseemly zeal, and confirms that Asarias has no intent to remarry. Sanna storms out threatening lawsuits; Santra pleads to keep visiting to sing but is told to leave the man in peace. The opening thus sets up a comic triangle (plus a wily go-between) and lands the conflict under clerical scrutiny, with the pastor sending each woman away and the men escorting them home. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240801101944wuori 1928 FI Reading ease score: 64.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fi Comedy plays Finnish drama -- 20th century PH Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 147996 2025-09-30T08:45:53.939121 text/html 143853 2025-09-30T08:46:00.575029 application/epub+zip 144363 2025-09-30T08:45:57.327032 application/epub+zip 107069 2025-09-30T08:45:56.055040 application/epub+zip 324915 2025-09-30T08:46:02.721988 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 311503 2025-09-30T08:45:59.828011 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 116417 2025-09-30T08:45:53.651106 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 96545 2025-08-15T13:47:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15274 2025-09-30T08:46:02.845016 application/rdf+xml 19328 2025-09-30T08:45:56.641036 image/jpeg 3936 2025-09-30T08:45:56.386033 image/jpeg 144391 2025-09-30T08:45:53.951052 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