The Railway

Juhani Aho (1861–1921) was Finland’s most celebrated prose writer and a defining figure in Finnish literary history. His novella Rautatie (The Railway, 1884), a tender portrait of rural Finland confronting industrialisation, is considered one of the founding works of Finnish literature.

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