Moominpappa's Memoirs
core novel 1950 The Moomins
Record
| Original title | Muminpappans bravader skrivna av honom själv |
|---|---|
| First published | 1950 |
| Original language |  SV |
| First English translation | 1952 |
| Translator | Thomas Warburton |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.15 (11,533 ratings, collected 2026-10-06) |
| Page count | 162 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312625436 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Laid up with a cold, Moominpappa decides the time has come to write his memoirs, and reads each chapter aloud to Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin, who turn out to be the sons of his companions. Before he had a family, before he met Moominmamma, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue: abandoned as a foundling at an orphanage for Moomins run by a stern Hemulen aunt, he ran away, met the inventor Hodgkins and sailed in his ship, the Oshun Oxtra, with the Joxter and the Muddler, visited the island of the Hattifatteners and the Autocrat's kingdom, fell in with the Mymble and saw his first Moominmamma washed ashore in a storm. Jansson revised the book in 1968 as Muminpappans memoarer, and that text is the one in print. Tall tales from a short Moomin.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Moomins
- Series: The Moomins core; position 4 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tove Jansson
Notes
- From the series record (The Moomins): Tove Jansson's nine Moomin books (1945-1970), written in Swedish in Finland and illustrated by the author: the Moomin family of Moominvalley and their friends, from the comet, the Hobgoblin's hat and the flooded theatre of the early comedies to the winter, the sea and the empty house of the darker late novels.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Moomins: position 4 of 9: previous Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) · next Moominsummer Madness (1954)
Sources
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