![]() ![]() Moominvalley in November, the final novel in the series, was published in 1970 and serves as a beautiful and deeply subtle valediction to the world of the Moomins. The gentle creature has seen a flicker of light on the horizon. John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books - A first edition, published in London by Ernest Benn printed in Finland, 1953. As winter draws near, Snufkin, Mymble, Toft and others move into the Moominhouse to await the family’s return and soon find themselves absorbed in exploits of their own. The Moomins (Swedish: mumintrollen) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, and a comic strip by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They have left their beloved Moominvalley – for the mysterious lighthouse island of Moominpappa at Sea – and no one has seen them since. ![]() They sleep through the winter and when spring comes they wake and clamber down rope ladders hanging from their windows, ready for a bright new adventure.īut in Moominvalley in November, the Moomins are missing. ![]() The Moomins, in case you haven’t already met them, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a beautiful Finnish valley. The last, most profound and elegiac of Tove Jansson’s Moomin novels A Special Collectors’ Edition Moomin Hardback lovingly restored to its original stunning design ![]()
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