Project Gutenberg 2025-10-11 Public domain in the USA. 143 Scott, Gabriel 1874 1958 Jensen, Gabriel Scott Kailas, Uuno 1901 1933 Stien, eller Kristofer med kvisten. Finnish Polku $aHelsinki :$bHolger Schildtin kustannusosakeyhtiö, $c1926. Tuula Temonen "Polku" by Gabriel Scott is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Kristofer, a sensitive, unusually tall boy with a stutter, who finds refuge from ridicule in the mountains and dreams of becoming a shepherd. Through lyrical nature writing and village lore, the path up the fell becomes a spiritual guide, tracing themes of cruelty and kindness, belonging, and quiet endurance. The opening of the novel dwells first on the hush of dusk and the winding mountain path, naming lakes, ridges, and the remnants of a tiny stone hut and sheepfold linked to “Vesa-Kristofer,” who planted living switches wherever he walked. The narrative then turns to Kristofer’s childhood: mocked for his height and speech, tormented by a kyttyräselkäinen boy, and belittled by a fault-finding father, he discovers solace building a miniature sheepfold and playing shepherd among rocks and heather. A revelatory moment comes when he sees the seasoned shepherd Nils Vatne driving a flock at sunset; the boy secretly walks at night to a distant fold to ask about becoming a shepherd and is gently encouraged to grow. Later, a bell he treasures betrays his hideaway to the bullies, who destroy his little world and injure his back; bedridden and weakened, Kristofer endures his father’s impatience while clinging to the faint, consoling chime of the bell and to visions of the path that leads into the mountains. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250607223131scott 1926 FI fi Norwegian fiction -- Translations into Finnish PT Text 457316 2025-11-30T10:21:47.054002 text/html 224347 2025-11-30T10:21:53.482998 application/epub+zip 230461 2025-11-30T10:21:48.795009 application/epub+zip 230461 2025-11-30T10:21:47.705029 application/epub+zip 386942 2025-11-30T10:21:57.307002 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 348998 2025-11-30T10:21:52.829975 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416452 2025-11-30T10:21:46.548026 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 396752 2025-10-11T15:04:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15287 2025-11-30T10:21:57.444958 application/rdf+xml 8021 2025-11-30T10:21:48.207025 image/jpeg 2349 2025-11-30T10:21:47.951996 image/jpeg 218217 2025-11-30T10:21:47.091010 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 en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia