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24%OFFRobert(Ed) Chandler - Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov - 9780141442235 - V9780141442235
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Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

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Description for Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov Paperback. Includes tales such as young women go on long and difficult 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. Editor(s): Chandler, Robert. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Robert. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; FQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'

In these tales, young women go on long and difficult 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. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141442235
SKU
V9780141442235
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Robert(Ed) Chandler
Elizabeth Chandler is a co-translator, with Robert Chandler, of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter and several works by Andrey Platonov and Vasily Grossman.

Reviews for Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
This is a unique, beautifully edited book: an essential addition to the library of any Russophile
Spectator
Evoking the realm 'across thrice nine lands', [this book offers] us a richly imagined perspective on our own world
The Times Literary Supplement

Goodreads reviews for Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov


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