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Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov Paperback - 2013

by Robert Chandler (Translator); Introduction by Robert Chandler; Elizabeth Chandler (Translator)


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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.

From the publisher

Robert Chandler is an award-winning poet and translator from Russian, French, and Greek, and the editor of Penguin Classics’ Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida. He lives in the U.K.

Sibelan Forrester is a professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

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  • Title Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
  • Author Robert Chandler (Translator); Introduction by Robert Chandler; Elizabeth Chandler (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 2013-06-25
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780141442235 / 0141442239
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1.3 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Folklore, Russia
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet and translator. His many translations from Russian include works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman, and Andrey Platonov; his anthologies Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry are both published by Penguin Classics.

Sibelan Forrester
is a professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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