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Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

By Sibelan Forrester , Elizabeth Chandler , Robert Chandler , Anna Gunin , Olga Meerson

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2013
ISBN
0141442239, 9780141442235
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3581927 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
448\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2014-09-29 19:02:18

Description

For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Some of the stories here were collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four of the greatest writers in Russian literature: Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov, Andrey Platonov, and Alexander Pushkin, author of Eugene Onegin, the classic Russian novel in verse. Among the many classic stories included here are the tales of Baba Yaga, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Father Frost, and the Frog Princess.

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