A Stranger Came to the Farm
by Mika Waltari
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Born in Helsinki, Waltari went to Paris after receiving a university education. He published his first volume of poetry at 17. At the age of 20, his second novel, The Great Illusion (1928), brought him general recognition. Waltari returned to Helsinki from Paris in 1929 and continued to write poems, plays, novels, and fairy tales, a total of 80 show more texts during the next 20 years. The Egyptian (1945), a worldwide success, brought Waltari into prominence in other countries. His three-volume historical novel From Father to Son (1942) won the national Literary Prize and was filmed and translated into 14 languages. Unfortunately, 11 English translations of Waltari's work are out of print. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Gallimard, Folio (2751)
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- Canonical title
- A Stranger Came to the Farm
- Original title
- Vieras mies tuli taloon
- Original publication date
- 1937
- Important places*
- Finnland
- First words*
- An einem Frühlingstag kam bei Sonnenuntergang ein Fremder auf den Hof.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Die Erde kannte weder Freude noch Kummer, und darin glich sie ihr, als sie mit dem leblosen Haupt des Geliebten im Schoss dasass, umflossen vom Kühlen Licht der Herbstsonne.
- Original language*
- Finnisch
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 894 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia
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- PZ3 .W16986 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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