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192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1954
‘A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that’s where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they’d like to be if they dared to, and what they really are.”
— Emma, in Chapter 8
Snufkin was a calm person who knew an immense lot of things but never talked about them unnecessarily.
But still, Moomintroll reflected on his quiet walk along the river. There ARE Grokes and policemen. And abysses to fall in. And it happens that people freeze to death, and blow up in the air, and fall in the sea, and catch herring-bones in their throats, and a lot of other things.
The big world is dangerous where there’s no one to know one and no one to know what one likes and what one’s afraid of.