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Russian Wonder Tales
| Author: | Post Wheeler |
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Original English publication, 1912 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
The Russian skazki are the mass of folk tales distributed widely through all the Russias. They are among the oldest stories in the world, handed down in peasant's hut and noble's palace from a time when history had yet to be recorded. They are today, from Archangel to the Black Sea and from Siberia to the Baltic, almost as much a part of life of the people as the language itself.
Russian Wonder Tales has long been recognized as one of the best of all children's classics. Now, in this fresh re-issue of the completely revised edition, it is still a marvelous book. There are perhaps no wonder tales extant today so fascinating as these, for they have been written with that touch of magic which makes old tales eternally new. The twelve illustrations in full color are by a famous Russian painter, Bilibin, whose art revives the enchanted lands of a distant, glowing past.
Aside from the overwhelming appeal of these stories for younger readers, Russian Wonder Tales is also an important book for the student of legend and myth. The tales are linked to a hundred phrases in common parlance; the heroes, in one guise or another, peer from every page of Slavonic literature; and the delver in historic debris finds each stratum sown thick with skazki shards to the very bedrock of legend.
Table of Contents:
- Foreward
- The Language of the Birds
- Tsar Saltan
- Vasilissa the Beautiful
- The Little Humpbacked Horse
- Tsar-Morskoi the Sea-Ruler
- Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf
- Maria Morevna
- Martin the Peasant's Son
- The Mountain of White Sand
- The Feather of Finist the Falcon
- The Frog-Tsarevna
- Schmat-Razum
- The Twin Brothers
- Little Bear's Son
- Vasilii the Unlucky
- Tsarevitch Petr and the Wizard
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