Larin-Kyösti 3 hr 19 min read

In a lyrical Finnish fantasy, a magic mirror opens onto realms of wonder and reflection, weaving folklore and enchantment in the voice of a beloved poet.

Larin-Kyösti's 1912 work ('Taikapeili,' The Magic Mirror) is an imaginative fantasy by a noted Finnish poet and playwright. Lyrical, dreamlike, folkloric. Read it for a graceful piece of early-twentieth-century Finnish fantasy, a poet's enchanted mirror and the wonders it reveals, in the original Finnish.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).