Rautatie

work by Aho

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In Juhani Aho
His novel Rautatie (1884; “The Railway”), the story of an elderly couple’s first railway trip, is a Finnish classic. Influenced by contemporary Norwegian and French writers—Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson, Guy de Maupassant, and particularly Alphonse Daudet—he described the life of the educated classes in Papin tytär…
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