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The Folio Society (2010). Introduced by Maria Tatar. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat. Quarter-bound in leather with cloth sides, printed and blocked with a design by Niroot Puttapipat. Set in Ehrhardt. Frontispiece and 15 pen and ink illustrations. Size: 10" x 6¾", 512 pages.
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A collection of the classic Russian folk and fairy tales.
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LibraryThing member DeltaQueen50
Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanasev is a classic collection of Russian folk tales. Originally published in 1866, this version was translated by Norbert Guterman in 1946. In this book there are over 200 stories and poems that were collected by Afanasev, these tales are a mosaic of Russian
It is obvious in the reading that many, if not most, of these tales were meant to teach life lessons. Many of the stories end abruptly with the death of the main character, illustrating the point of the story - not to do, go or eat something that you have been warned off of. Of course some are obviously simple tales meant to evoke laughter and escape. From obscure stories of simpletons, princesses and talking creatures to the more famous tales of Baba Yaga, Jack Frost and the Fire Bird, one can see how these stores became known as oral poetry.
Passed along verbally over the generations, many variations of the same story emerged. Some would add a humorous slant to their version, others added political touches that had meaning to his audience, while the sly, enterprising storyteller often ended his tale thusly, “This is the end of my tale, and I now would not mind having a glass of vodka.”.
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folklore running the gamut from tragedy, romance, humor and adventure. Simple tales that you can well imagine being passed from one generation to another on long Russian nights. It is obvious in the reading that many, if not most, of these tales were meant to teach life lessons. Many of the stories end abruptly with the death of the main character, illustrating the point of the story - not to do, go or eat something that you have been warned off of. Of course some are obviously simple tales meant to evoke laughter and escape. From obscure stories of simpletons, princesses and talking creatures to the more famous tales of Baba Yaga, Jack Frost and the Fire Bird, one can see how these stores became known as oral poetry.
Passed along verbally over the generations, many variations of the same story emerged. Some would add a humorous slant to their version, others added political touches that had meaning to his audience, while the sly, enterprising storyteller often ended his tale thusly, “This is the end of my tale, and I now would not mind having a glass of vodka.”.
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LibraryThing member Czrbr
Book Description: Toronto: Pantheon Books Random House of Canada Limited, 1973. Hard Cover Red Cloth. Very Good Condition. Second Edition. 6" x 9" 661 Pages. Illustrated in black and white. Translated by Norbert Guterman from the collections of Aleksandr Afanas'ev.
LibraryThing member suzemo
This is the first book that made me fall in love with the Pantheon Fairy Tale Library.
It's a collection of Russian Folk Tales, with a decent index and cute illustrations that go along with the stories.
It's a collection of Russian Folk Tales, with a decent index and cute illustrations that go along with the stories.
LibraryThing member PuddinTame
I bought the Kindle version of this, and I was very pleased with it. I am looking at it on my iPhone, and I am sure that it is even better on a actual Kindle or a tablet. Bilibin's illustrations are beautiful, detailed, and glowing, and being on Kindle can be expanded to see the detail. These are
Contents:
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Maria Morevna
Finist the Falcon
The Frog-Tsarevna
Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf
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long versions of the stories, which is fine with me. The automatic print is a little small on the iPhone, but of course can be enlarged, and probably is no problem on a larger device. My only complaint is that there is no table of contents and it is apparently not possible to bookmark the beginnings of the tales.Contents:
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Maria Morevna
Finist the Falcon
The Frog-Tsarevna
Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf
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Original publication date
1945
2011-12-15
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A collection of 170 of Aleksandr Afanas’ev's Russian fairy tales and folktales. Afanas’ev’s tales are a record of orally transmitted stories, in what more recent scholars would describe as several different genres (myths, legends, fabulates, memorates, etc.). Afanas’ev called his tales Russkie narodnye skazki, of which the second word means ‘of the people’ and the third means, etymologically, ‘something spoken’.
His collection includes tales with magic and fantastic elements such as magic rings or flying carpets, tales about animals, stories of wizards and witches (some just village magicians, others, such as the well-known Baba Yaga, essentially demons), and the various minor demons and monsters of Russian popular belief, as well as accounts of simple lads performing improbable deeds or outwitting enemies to win the hand of princesses, humorous anecdotes, pseudo-historical stories about figures from the past, and stories about fools, the comeuppance of important persons, and marital relations and deceptions. Some have a moral, some are cynical or cruel, some reflect simple everyday life.
Niroot's black silhouette illustrations are divine, I only wish there were more...
Folio Society Myths and Legends series.
His collection includes tales with magic and fantastic elements such as magic rings or flying carpets, tales about animals, stories of wizards and witches (some just village magicians, others, such as the well-known Baba Yaga, essentially demons), and the various minor demons and monsters of Russian popular belief, as well as accounts of simple lads performing improbable deeds or outwitting enemies to win the hand of princesses, humorous anecdotes, pseudo-historical stories about figures from the past, and stories about fools, the comeuppance of important persons, and marital relations and deceptions. Some have a moral, some are cynical or cruel, some reflect simple everyday life.
Niroot's black silhouette illustrations are divine, I only wish there were more...
Folio Society Myths and Legends series.