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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Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Item Length: 7.8in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Robert Chandler
Original Language: Russian
Format: United Kingdom-B Format Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Classics, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Social Science, Fiction
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 496 Pages