Description:Chapters: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen, Aarne Haapakoski. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mika Toimi Waltari (.)) (September 19, 1908 August 26, 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: ). Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. Later he enrolled in the University of Helsinki as a theology student, according to his mother's wishes, but soon abandoned theology in favour of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, graduating in 1929. While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in 1925. In 1927 he went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life. In terms of style, the novel is considered to be the Finnish equivalent to the works of the American writers of the Lost Generation. (In Waltari's historical novel The Adventurer, taking place in the 16th century, the hero is a Finn who goes to Paris during his twenties and lives there a rather bohemian life). Waltari also was, for a while, a member of the liberal literary movement Tulenkantajat, though his political and social views later turned conservative. He was married in 1931 and had a daughter, Satu, who also became a writer. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Waltari worked hectically as a journalist and critic, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines and travelling widely in Europe. He directed the magazine Suomen Kuvalehti. At the same time, he kept writing books in many genres, moving easily from one literary field to anot...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16462We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Finnish Crime Writers: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen. To get started finding Finnish Crime Writers: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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1157323022
Finnish Crime Writers: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen
Description: Chapters: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen, Aarne Haapakoski. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mika Toimi Waltari (.)) (September 19, 1908 August 26, 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: ). Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. Later he enrolled in the University of Helsinki as a theology student, according to his mother's wishes, but soon abandoned theology in favour of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, graduating in 1929. While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in 1925. In 1927 he went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life. In terms of style, the novel is considered to be the Finnish equivalent to the works of the American writers of the Lost Generation. (In Waltari's historical novel The Adventurer, taking place in the 16th century, the hero is a Finn who goes to Paris during his twenties and lives there a rather bohemian life). Waltari also was, for a while, a member of the liberal literary movement Tulenkantajat, though his political and social views later turned conservative. He was married in 1931 and had a daughter, Satu, who also became a writer. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Waltari worked hectically as a journalist and critic, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines and travelling widely in Europe. He directed the magazine Suomen Kuvalehti. At the same time, he kept writing books in many genres, moving easily from one literary field to anot...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16462We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Finnish Crime Writers: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen. To get started finding Finnish Crime Writers: Mika Waltari, Ilkka Remes, Reijo Maki, Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Martti Lofberg, Seppo Jokinen, Leena Lehtolainen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.