Meidän Herramme pettäjä : Kertomuksia valtameren kyntäjistä by Jack London
"Meidän Herramme pettäjä : Kertomuksia valtameren kyntäjistä" by Jack London is a collection of sea stories written in the early 20th century. The tales center on the brutal, elemental life at sea—shipwrecks, Cape Horn gales, superstition, and grim moral tests—following sailors, captains, and ship’s boys in moments where courage and cruelty collide. Expect terse, hard-edged storytelling, stark irony, and vivid maritime detail rather than a single continuing protagonist. The opening of the
collection presents four stark sea pieces. First comes a “true story” of the Francis Spaight, where a capsized crew drifts starving until they force a rigged lottery and murder a defiant cabin boy—only to be sighted and rescued moments later. Next, aboard the Mary Rogers at Cape Horn, the hulking Captain Dan Cullen, obsessed with “keeping a westing,” refuses to heave to for a man overboard and later contrives a passenger’s death, coolly covering both in the log. Then a young hand on the Sophie Sutherland battles fo’c’sle superstition: after taking a dead man’s bunk he “sees” a ghost on night watch that proves to be a mast-shadow cast by the veiled moon. The final piece begins with a weary captain approaching Dublin Bay, pilot aboard and rain coming in, sketching the commercial grind before the excerpt cuts off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | London, Jack, 1876-1916 |
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| Translator | Kopra, Tauno |
| Title | Meidän Herramme pettäjä : Kertomuksia valtameren kyntäjistä |
| Original Publication | Helsinki: Oy Kansanvalta, 1924. |
| Note | Translations of four stories: The Francis Spaight; Make westing; That dead men rise up never; The sea-farmer. |
| Contents | Valtameren kauhuja -- Meidän Herramme pettäjä -- Kuolleet eivät milloinkaan palaja -- Valtameren kyntäjä. |
| Credits | Tapio Riikonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 43.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | American fiction -- Translations into Finnish |
| Subject | Short stories, American -- Translations into Finnish |
| Subject | Sea stories, American -- Translations into Finnish |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76099 |
| Release Date | May 15, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 138 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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