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Book Vasilisa the Beautiful

Download or read book Vasilisa the Beautiful written by Irina Zheleznova and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTSVasilisa the BeautifulTsarevich Ivan and Grey WolfThe two IvansFenist the FalconSister Alyonushka and Brother IvanushkaChestnut-GreyFather FrostGo I Know Not Where, Fetch I Know Not WhatLittle Girl and the Swan-GeeseThe Silver Saucer and the Rosy-Cheeked AppleEmelya and the PikeThe Frog TsarevnaWee Little HavroshechkaMarya Morevna the Lovely TsarevnaIvan - Young of Years, Old of WisdomThe Seven Simeons - Seven Brave Workingmen

Book The Russian Fairy Tale  Revised First Edition

Download or read book The Russian Fairy Tale Revised First Edition written by Thomas J. Garza and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales

Download or read book The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales written by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1978 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells four Russian folk tales: The Firebird, Vassilissa the Fair, Maria Morevna, and The Snow Maiden.

Book The Russian Fairy Tale  First Edition

Download or read book The Russian Fairy Tale First Edition written by Thomas Garza and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to selected tales from the Russian/Slavic tradition and to methods of examining and critiquing them. The material examines fairy tales from their folk origins to their literary and filmic versions, and provides contextual ties to Western presentations of fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Disney.

Book Russian Fairy Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aleksandr Afanas'ev
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 2013-01-02
  • ISBN : 0307829766
  • Pages : 673 pages

Download or read book Russian Fairy Tales written by Aleksandr Afanas'ev and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English. This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a landmark multi-volume collection by the outstanding Russian ethnographer Aleksandr Afanas'ev reveal a rich, robust world of the imagination. Translated by Norbert Guterman Illustrated by Alexander Alexeieff With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Book Baba Yaga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sibelan Forrester
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2013-08-13
  • ISBN : 1628467436
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Baba Yaga written by Sibelan Forrester and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction by Sibelan Forrester, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales is a selection of tales that draws from the famous collection of Aleksandr Afanas'ev, but also includes some tales from the lesser-known nineteenth-century collection of Ivan Khudiakov. This new collection includes beloved classics such as "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and "The Frog Princess," as well as a version of the tale that is the basis for the ballet "The Firebird." The preface and introduction place these tales in their traditional context with reference to Baba Yaga's continuing presence in today's culture--the witch appears iconically on tennis shoes, tee shirts, even tattoos. The stories are enriched with many wonderful illustrations of Baba Yaga, some old (traditional "lubok" woodcuts), some classical (the marvelous images from Victor Vasnetsov or Ivan Bilibin), and some quite recent or solicited specifically for this collection

Book The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp

Download or read book The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp written by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.

Book Russian Fairy Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Pushkin
  • Publisher : Penguin Classics
  • Release : 2016-11-24
  • ISBN : 9780241250020
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Russian Fairy Tales written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of Pushkin's magical fairy tales in new translations, accompanied by Ivan Bilibin's stunning original illustrations, in a beautiful hardcover edition Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, was fascinated by Russia's folk history, adapting its fairy tales into captivating poetic versions. In the early twentieth century, the book illustrator Ivan Bilibin likewise fell under the spell of Old Russia, drawing on both folk motifs and art nouveau to produce beautiful illustrations to accompany Pushkin's poems. This irresistible new edition presents three of Pushkin's fairy tales ("The Tale of Tsar Saltan," "The Fisherman and the Fish," and "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel") in new versions by the acclaimed translator Antony Wood, alongside Bilibin's sumptuous original illustrations. The result is an enchanting window into Russian poetry, fairy tales, and magic. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book Russian Fairy Tales from the Russian of Polevoi

Download or read book Russian Fairy Tales from the Russian of Polevoi written by Petr Polevoĭ and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Allies  Fairy Book   Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Download or read book The Allies Fairy Book Illustrated by Arthur Rackham written by Edmund Gosse and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allies’ Fairy Book contains a selection of traditional fairy tales from the participants of World War One – compiled and edited by Edmund Gosse in 1916. It includes the tales of: ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ (English); ‘The Battle of the Birds’ (Scottish); ‘Lludd and Llevelys’ (Welsh); ‘The Sleeping Beauty (French); ‘Cesarino and the Dragon’ (Italian); ‘What came of picking flowers’ (Portuguese); ‘The Tongue-Cut Sparrow’ (Japanese); ‘Frost’ (Russian); ‘The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens’ (Serbian), and many more. The book further contains a series of dazzling colour and black-and-white illustrations – by a master of the craft; Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). One of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration (which encompassed the years from 1850 until the start of the First World War), Rackham’s artistry is quite simply, unparalleled. Throughout his career, he developed a unique style, combining haunting humour with dream-like romance. Presented alongside the text of the ‘Allied Fairy Book’, his illustrations further refine and elucidate Gosse’s carefully compiled anthology. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children’s stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.

Book Xhosa and Russian Folktales

Download or read book Xhosa and Russian Folktales written by Bertie Neethling and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this publication is to indicate that Xhosa iintsomi (folktales) are structured in such a way that many links or commonalities emerge when a comparison between tales is made. Orally transmitted literary forms had to endure much prejudice and were often not considered worthy of study. However, in many different cultures all over the world, the concept of oral literature and its functioning still exists. There are various forms of oral literature, but one of the best known is the folktale. Folklorist and formalist, Vladimir Propp (1895?1970), aimed to describe the story structure of Russian folktales according to a linear sequence of the acts of the characters. Using one hundred folktales, he illustrated how the storylines of these tales are remarkably similar ? identical actions are often performed, only by different characters. The somewhat surprising and obvious links between Propp?s material and Xhosa iintsomi prompted the choice of Propp?s model as the departure point for this comparative study. Forty?five Xhosa folktales were chosen because of their literary quality and suitability to Propp?s methodology as a tool to organise the Xhosa data on the grounds of structural features that characterise this genre.

Book Russian Folktales from the Collection of A  Afanasyev

Download or read book Russian Folktales from the Collection of A Afanasyev written by Alexander Afanasyev and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original dual-language edition features new translations of stories selected from the authoritative three-volume collection by famed author Alexander Afanasyev, Popular Russian Tales. Afanasyev recorded hundreds of folktales, the first compilations of which were published between 1855 and 1867 and featured such characteristically Russian figures as Vasilisa, Baba Yaga, Ivan Tsarevich, and the glorious Firebird. This edition's fables include The Little Hen; The Cockerel and the Hand-Mill; Baba Yaga; The Little White Duck; and Ivanko Medvedko. Suitable for high school and college intermediate-level Russian classes, these timeless tales will captivate readers of all ages. Left-hand pages feature the original Russian text; right-hand pages contain the new English translation by Sergey Levchin, who provides an informative Introduction. Dover (2014) original publication. See every Dover book in print at www.doverpublications.com

Book Tales from Russian Folklore

Download or read book Tales from Russian Folklore written by Alexander Afanasyev and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in a brand new translation, this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales will enchant readers for their raw beauty and constant ability to surprise and excite. Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best from written and oral sources. The result, an eight-volume collection comprising around 600 stories, is one of the most influential and enduringly popular books in Russian literature. This large selection from Afanasyev's work, presented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, will give English readers the opportunity to discover one of the founding texts of the European folkloristic tradition. Displaying a vast array of unforgettable characters, such as the Baba-Yaga, Ivan the Fool, Vasilisa the Fair and the Firebird, these tales--by turns adventurous, comical and downright madcap--will enchant readers for their raw beauty and constant ability to surprise and excite.

Book RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES FROM THE SKAZKI OF POLEVOI   24 Russian Fairy Tales

Download or read book RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES FROM THE SKAZKI OF POLEVOI 24 Russian Fairy Tales written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen (Stories, Folklore or Fairy Tales) was first made generally known to the British Public in about 1880 by William Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. A year after the appearance of Ralston's book, the eminent Russian historian and archæologist, Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi selected, from the inexhaustible stores of Afanasiev, some three dozen of the Skazki (stories) most suitable for children, and worked them up into a fairy tale book which was published at St. Petersburg in 1874, under the title of Narodnuiya Russkiya Skazki (Popular Russian Stories). To manipulate these quaintly vigorous old world stories for nursery purposes was, no easy task, but, on the whole, M. Polevoi did his work excellently well, softening the crudities and smoothing out the occasional roughness, turning these charming stories into entirely readable stories for children. It is from the first Russian edition of M. Polevoi's book that the following selection of 24 Russian stories has been made. With the single exception of "Morozko," a variant of which may be familiar to those who know Mr. Ralston's volume. Some of the stories in this volume are: The Golden Mountain Morozko The Flying Ship The Story of the Tsarevich Ivan, and of The Harp that Harped Without A Harper The Story of Gore-Gorinskoe Go I Know Not Whither—Fetch I Know Not What Kuz’ma Skorobogaty The Tsarevna Loveliness-Inexhaustible Verlioka; and many more. As to the merits of these Skazki, they must be left to speak for themselves. So, we invite you to down this book of 24 unique Russian Fairy Tales and curl up in a comfy chair with a mug for of steaming hot chocolate and be whisked away to a country that is still as mysterious as it is large. 10% of the profit from the sale of this eBook will be donated to charities. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Russian, Russia, Skazki, Folklore, fairy tales, myths, legends, folk tales, story, children’s stories, bedtime, fables, culture, cultural, golden mountain, morozko, flying ship, muzhichek, big as your thumb, moustaches, seven versts, long, tsarevich ivan, harp gore gorinskoe, go, fetch, kuz’ma, Kuzma, skorobogaty, tsarevna, loveliness, inexhaustible, verlioka, frog, tsarevna, two sons, ivan, soldier, woman, accuser, Thomas, berennikov, white duck, little fool, little feather, fenist, bright falcon, peasant, demyan, enchanted, ring, brave, labourer, sage, damsel, prophetic, dream, two out, knapsack, marko the rich, vasily the luckless, R, Nisbet Bain, C. M. Gere

Book Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Classic Reprint written by R. Nisbet Bain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Introduction TO the first edition HE favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales - I mean Ruthenian, the language Of the Cossacks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevo

Download or read book Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevo written by Petr Polevo and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contain a selection of Russian fairy tales from the first edition of M. Polevoi's book, with a short treatise on the genre of fairy tales.

Book Russian Fairy Tales

Download or read book Russian Fairy Tales written by A. Brylinska and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Fairy Tales: An Accented Russian Reader With Notes and Vocabulary Before the appearance of written literature the Fairy Tale was the only product of the popular creative power, the only outlet for the imagination of the people. It served to brighten the hopeless outlook of the helpless peasant and saved his mind from utter degeneracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.