Kun meri antoi omansa takaisin by Gabriel Sanden
"Kun meri antoi omansa takaisin" by Gabriel Sanden is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on the Titanic catastrophe and its human fallout, following Finnish-born American engineer Henry Patterson aboard the liner and his wife Elinor in Chicago, as questions of fate, identity, and survival press in. The tone blends maritime disaster realism with intimate psychological drama. The opening of the novel places readers in the Titanic’s smoking
room, where confident first-class passengers dismiss danger near Cape Race—until the ship shudders to a stop. Henry Patterson moves from calm observation to urgent action as lifeboats are lowered; he descends to flooded lower decks and forces open a locked door to free trapped people, then endures the ship’s breakup, icy water, and a brutal struggle near an overcrowded boat. In Chicago, Elinor maintains an outwardly serene routine while privately clinging to the conviction that her husband lives, to her brother Tom’s concern, as the family’s lawyer Hall insinuates himself with self-serving intent. The scene then shifts to a Liverpool hospital, where a doctor worries over a mysterious “Nameless” patient—hinting that the sea may, indeed, have given something back. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sanden, Gabriel, 1885-1933 |
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| Translator | Krohn, Helmi, 1871-1967 |
| Uniform Title | När hafvet gaf igen. Finnish |
| Title | Kun meri antoi omansa takaisin |
| Original Publication | Jyväskylä: K. J. Gummerus Osakeyhtiö, 1924. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen and Johanna Kankaanpää |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78146 |
| Release Date | Mar 8, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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