Veljesten kesken: Yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä

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Veljesten kesken: Yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä

by Paul Heyse

FI·~56 minutes·3 chapters

Chapters

3 total

VELJESTEN KESKEN

0:03

PAUL HEYSE

0:06

HENKILÖT:

56:36

Description

Set in a tastefully furnished city apartment, the play opens on a bustling afternoon where sister Klaara greets her cousin Toini with a mixture of teasing banter and urgent domestic business. The scene quickly establishes a lively household of scholars and professionals—a mathematics professor, a pastor brother, a natural‑science doctor, an architect, and their spirited sister—each whose personalities and ambitions collide in humorous misunderstandings.

Klaara’s playful yet pointed questioning about marriage and family duty draws Toini into a tangled web of expectations, old grudges, and sibling loyalties. As the characters volley witty retorts and reveal hints of past grievances, the audience is drawn into a farcical battle of wits that balances affection with rivalry, promising plenty of laughs and a glimpse into the quirks of a tightly knit, intellectually charged family.

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Language

fi

Duration

~56 minutes (54K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Finland: U. W. Telén & Co., 1897.

Credits

Tapio Riikonen

Release date

Aug 6, 2022

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Paul Heyse

Paul Heyse

1830–1914

A prolific German writer celebrated for his elegant short stories, poetry, novels, and plays, Paul Heyse became one of the leading literary figures of nineteenth-century Munich. He received the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature for the beauty and idealism of his writing.

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