Moominsummer Madness
core novel 1954 The Moomins
Record
| Original title | Farlig midsommar |
|---|---|
| First published | 1954 |
| Original language |  SV |
| First English translation | 1955 |
| Translator | Thomas Warburton |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.29 (15,129 ratings, collected 2026-10-06) |
| Page count | 176 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312608910 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
A volcano erupts, the sea rises, and a flood sweeps through Moominvalley until the water laps at the second-floor windows. When a strange building floats past, the Moomins climb aboard, not realising it is a theatre, complete with a stage, scenery, a trapdoor and a resident ghost, Emma, the old stage rat who alone understands what a theatre is for. The family is scattered: Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden are stranded in a tree and arrested for burning a Hemulen's Midsummer bonfire, Snufkin uproots a park keeper's forbidding signs and finds himself in charge of twenty-four small children, and Little My is found asleep in a sewing basket. Moominpappa writes a play in blank verse, and on Midsummer Night the whole cast is reunited for its one disastrous, triumphant performance.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Moomins
- Series: The Moomins core; position 5 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 5 of 9: previous Moominpappa's Memoirs (1950) · next Moominland Midwinter (1957)
Sources
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominsummer_Madness
- https://www.fictiondb.com/book/moominsummer-madness~tove-jansson~309687.htm
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