Russian magic tales from Pushkin to Platonov
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Penguin Books,
London ;
c2012.
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- ISBN: 9780141442235
- Physical Description: xxi, 466 pages.print
- Publisher: London ; Penguin Books, c2012.
- General Note: Translated from the Russian.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-438).
- Formatted Contents Note: A tale about a priest and his servant Balda ; A tale about a fisherman and a fish / Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) -- The crane and the heron ; The little brown cow ; Vasilisa the Fair ; Marya Morevna ; The little white duck ; The frog princess ; Pig skin ; The tsarevna in the underground tsardom ; The tsarevna who would not laugh ; Misery ; The wise girl / Aleksandr Afanasyev (1826-71) -- The brother ; The stepdaughter and the stepmother's daughter / Ivan Khudyakov (1842-76) ; (tr. Sibelan Forrester) -- The tsar maiden ; Ivan Mareson / from the journal Zhivaya starina ('The living past' 1890-1908) -- Ivan Tsarevich, the grey wolf and the firebird / Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) -- The black magician tsar ; Bronze brow / Nikolay Onchukov (1872-1942) -- The luck of a tsarevna / Olga Ozarovskaya (1874-1931) -- By the pike's command / Dmitry Zelenin (1878-1954) -- When the crayfish whistled : a Christmas horror ; A little fairy tale ; Baba Yaga (1932 picture book) ; The dog ; Baba Yaga (1947 article) / Nadezhda Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, 1872-1952) -- The mistress of the copper mountain ; The stone flower ; The mountain master ; Golden hair / Pavel Bazhov (1879-1950) ; (tr. Anna Gunin) -- The cat with the golden tale / Erna Pomerantseva (1899-1980) -- Mishka the bear and Myshka the mouse ; Jack Frost ; Snake-man ; The herder of hares ; A cock and bull story ; A marvellous wonder / Irina Karnaukhova (1901-59) -- The snake and the fisherman / Fyodor Tumilevich (1910-79) -- The everlasting piece / A.V. Bardin (1888-1962) -- How a man pinched a girl's breast / Dmitry Balashov (1927-2000) -- Finist the bright falcon ; Ivan the giftless and Yelena the wise ; The magic ring ; Ivan the wonder ; No-arms ; Wool over the eyes / Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) ; (translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson) -- Appendix. Baba Yaga : the wild witch of the East / by Sibelan Forrester.