Wulffie ja Kumpp: Näytelmä kolmessa näytöksessä

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Wulffie ja Kumpp: Näytelmä kolmessa näytöksessä

by Jonas Lie

FI·~1 hours·6 chapters

Chapters

6 total
1

WULFFIE JA KUMPP.

0:03
2

JONAS LIE

0:34
3

HENKILÖT:

0:25
4

ENSIMMÄINEN NÄYTÖS.

38:15
5

TOINEN NÄYTÖS.

30:13
6

KOLMAS NÄYTÖS.

25:24

Description

The play opens in an elegant summer room overlooking a tranquil park, where the pompous consul Wulff and his family host a young gardener busy arranging blossoms. Their banter spirals into a grandiose scheme to transform the surrounding swamp into a dazzling garden‑park, complete with imagined elephants and camels. The consul’s relentless demand for “two‑to‑three thousand crowns” sets a comic tone of ambition versus practicality.

A lively cast quickly joins the scene: the consul’s wife Linda, their restless children, a flirtatious fiancée, and a host of quirky acquaintances ranging from a jovial uncle to a sharp‑tongued doctor. Their witty exchanges lampoon social pretensions and the absurdity of wealth chasing ever larger spectacles. As the gardener tries to balance artistic vision with the consul’s relentless budgeting, the dialogue crackles with satire and playful absurdity.

Listeners will be drawn into a brisk, three‑act comedy that captures a slice of turn‑of‑the‑century society, richly populated with eccentric characters and sharp humor. The first act lays the groundwork for a tangled web of expectations, promises, and comic misunderstandings that promise a lively theatrical experience.

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Language

fi

Duration

~1 hours (91K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Tapio Riikonen

Release date

2020-03-07

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie

1833–1908

A central voice in 19th-century Norwegian literature, this storyteller brought coastal life, family tensions, and the feel of everyday Norway vividly onto the page. His novels helped shape the Scandinavian realist tradition and still stand beside the work of his famous contemporaries.

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