Αρφανούλα
Αλέξανδρος Μωραϊτίδης, 1900
In early-1900s Athens, a hardworking orphan builds a hat-making business while her indolent brother quietly dismantles it. A story about who gets to be called unfortunate.
Αλέξανδρος Μωραϊτίδης
1850–1929
Moraitidis was a classmate and close friend of Papadiamantis; both were devout, reclusive islanders writing in the same purist Greek about the same poor neighborhoods.
Feels like family, melancholy and tenderness.
A giant rattle is set at the front of the toy table to announce the holiday.
Οὕτω λοιπὸν ὁ Σπῦρος τοῦ γέρω−Λαχανᾶ, μὲ τὴν πονηρίαν του καὶ μὲ τὴν φυσικὴν ἀγαθότητα τῆς Ἀρφανούλας τὰ κατάφερε πάλιν· καὶ τὸν εἴδομεν τὴν παραμονὴν τῆς πρωτοχρονιᾶς πρωῒ − πρωΐ, παρὰ τὸ Ἅγιον Βῆμα τῆς Καπνικαρέας, ἐμπρὸς εἰς μίαν τράπεζαν γεμάτην ποικιλώτατα εὐθηνὰ ἀθυρμάτια, στρέφοντα, τῇ συμβουλῇ τοῦ θείου του, μίαν τεραστίαν ροκάναν, κρώζουσαν ἐκεῖ θρηνητικῶς, πρώτην − πρώτην αὐτήν, ὡς τὸ ἐγερτήριον τῆς μεγάλης ἐμπορικῆς ὁδοῦ, τὴν τρελλὴν ἐκείνην ἡμέραν. Books by Αλέξανδρος Μωραϊτίδης
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