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 Nobel Prize-winning German writer, he was admired in his lifetime for elegant storytelling, lyrical verse, and an astonishingly wide range of work. His novellas were especially celebrated, helping make him one of the best-known men of letters in Germany around the turn of the 20th century.

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