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This room begins with Seitsemän veljestä, Aleksis Kivi's complete fourteen-chapter novel in exact Finnish Wikisource revisions based on Project Lönnrot. It is the first authored Finnish prose novel on a shelf otherwise rich in compiled song, epic, mythology, and charms. The text retains historical Finnish spelling and punctuation and has no English translation here. One nineteenth-century rural novel cannot represent Finnish writing across every period, class, gender, region, minority, or diaspora.