Russian Fairy Tales Collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev 1973 Illustrated Second Edition Folklore Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket

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Russian Fairy Tales Collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev 1973 Illustrated Second Edition Folklore Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket

<Condition is Very Good as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, slightly bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 9.5” x 6.5”

—This is the only comprehensive edition available in English of the classic Russian folk and fairy tales collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev, the Russian counterpart to the brothers Grimm. It is now being reissued for the first time, some thirty years after its initial publication. Nearly 200 characteristic and colorful traditional folk and fairy tales are brought together in the only comprehensive edition available in English. Of the original 1945 edition, Eudora Welty wrote, "These Russian tales are rambunctious, full-blooded and temperamental. They are tense with action, magical and human, and move in a kind of cyclone of speed... These tales are gorgeous."

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"These Russian tales are rambunctious, full-blooded and temperamental. They are tense with action, magical and human, and move in a kind of cyclone of speed....These tales are gorgeous." -Eudora WeltyThe New York Times

"The heart of Russian popular culture in its traditional form—a mixture of legend, fantasy, peasant common sense and cunning, and a bit of history. One suspects that an understanding reader would come away from the pages of this book with a truer understanding of the Russian mind and heart than he could obtain from many thousand pages of more solemn interpretative writing. Certainly one of this year's outstanding publishing achieve-ments." — Commonweal

"There are so many kinds of stories that the book will fill almost any need. Little children will love the animal fables. ...Girls, as they grow older, will lose themselves in the noble princes, the lovely princesses, the wicked old Baba Yaga. Grownups cannot afford to miss the commentary by Roman Jakobson. All the broken threads of the many versions of the tales are gathered up here and woven into one rich and satisfying whole. The value of this dignified book with its strange, lovely illustrations can hardly be estimated. — Saturday Review of Literature



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