Russian Fairy Tales
by Arthur Ransome 
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RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES "Illustrated 18 Short Fairy Tales for Children" 1. The Magic Swan Geese 2. The Tale of Tsar Saltan 3. Emelya and the Pike 4. The Frog Tsarevna 5. Morozko 6. Twelve Months 7. Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf 8. Little Snow Girl (Snegurochka) 9. The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) 10. Kolobok Dough-Boy 11. Sadko 12. Ruslan and Ludmila 13. Golden Cockerel 14. The Scarlet Flower 15. The Humpbacked Little Pony 16. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish 17. The show more Tale of the Dead (Sleeping) Princess and the Seven Knights 18. Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka show lessTags
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The Peter Pauper Press boxed volume is undated, but by common consent dated to 1946. This US adaptation of 'Old Peter's Russian tales' omits the passages involving Old Peter and his grandchildren, which connects the stories in the original book. The 1946 volume contains The story of Sadko, The saucer and the apple, The fool and his flying ship, Little daughter of the snow, The cat who was head-forester, The fire bird and the princess, The hunter and his wife, Ivan the ninny, and The story of the stolen turnips.
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Children's author Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds, England on January 18, 1884. As a child, he spent many vacations sailing, camping, and exploring the countryside in England's Lake Country. He studied chemistry for one year at Yorkshire College before dropping out to become a writer. He worked for a London publisher and then for the Manchester show more Guardian newspaper. He wrote his first book, Bohemia in London, in 1907 and went to study folklore in Russia in 1913. In 1916, he published Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales. During World War I, he became a reporter for the Daily News and covered the war on the Eastern Front. While in Russia, he also covered the Russian Revolution in 1917. He eventually settled in England's Lake District with his second wife. In 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons, which was the first book in his well-know Swallows and Amazons series about children who sail and explore the lakes and mountains of England. He drew inspiration for the books from his own childhood memories. In 1936, he won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for Pigeon Post. He died on June 3, 1967. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Russian Fairy Tales
- Original title
- Russian fairy tales, chiefly following the versions of Arthur Ransome and with illustrations by Erica Gorecka-Egan
- Original publication date
- 1946
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- [None]
- First words
- In Novgorod in the old days there was a boy called Sadko, who was very poor.
The story of Sadko. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The versions of the present collection have been adapted from the retellings of Arthur Ransome, whose humorous, simple and homely versions seem to us by far the best in the English language.
A note on Russian fairy tales. - Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- The text of this edition has been set in the Weiss types, and 2050 copies have been printed in Mount Vernon, New York, on rag paper specially-made for the Peter Pauper Press.
Colophon.
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- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 398.20947 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature History, geographic treatment, biography European folktales Folklore of Russia and the Ukraine
- LCC
- PZ8 .R174 .R — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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