Russian magic tales from Pushkin to Platonov
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Russian magic tales from Pushkin to Platonov
（Penguin classics, . Penguin literature）
Penguin, 2012
- : pbk
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Contents of Works
- A tale about a priest and his servant Balda / Aleksandr Pushkin
- A tale about a fisherman and a fish / Aleksandr Pushkin
- The crane and the heron / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The little brown cow / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- Vasilisa the fair / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- Marya Morevna / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The little white duck / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The frog princess / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- Pig skin / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The tsarevna in an underground tsardom / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The tsarevna who would not laugh / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- Misery / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The wise girl / Aleksandr Afanasyev
- The brother / Ivan Khudyakov ; tr. Sibelan Forrester
- The stepdaughter and the stepmother's daughter / Ivan Khudyakov ; tr. Sibelan Forrester
- The tsar maiden
- Ivan Mareson
- Ivan Tsarevich, the grey wolf and the firebird / Ivan Bilibin
- The black magician tsar / Nikolay Onchukov
- Bronze brow / Nikolay Onchukov
- The luck of a tsarevna / Olga Ozarovskaya
- By the pike's command / Dmitry Zelenin
- When the crayfish whistled : a Christmas horror / Nadezhda Teffi
- A little fairy tale / Nadezhda Teffi
- Baba Yaga (1932 picture book) / Nadezhda Teffi
- The dog / Nadezhda Teffi
- Baba Yaga (1947 article) / Nadezhda Teffi
- The mistress of the copper mountain / Pavel Bazhov ; tr. Anna Gunin
- The stone flower / Pavel Bazhov ; tr. Anna Gunin
- The mountain master / Pavel Bazhov ; tr. Anna Gunin
- Golden hair / Pavel Bazhov ; tr. Anna Gunin
- The cat witih the golden tail / Erna Pomerantseva
- Mishka the bear and Myshka the mouse / Irina Karnaukhova
- Jack Frost / Irina Karnaukhova
- Snake-man / Irina Karnaukhova
- The herder of hares / Irina Karnaukhova
- A cock and bull story / Irina Karnaukhova
- A marvellous wonder / Irina Karnaukhova
- The snake and the fisherman / Fyodor Tumilevich
- The everlasting pieces / A.V. Bardin
- How a man pinched a girl's breast / Dmitry Balashov
- Finest the bright falcon / Andrey Platonov ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
- Ivan the giftless and Yelena the wise / Andrey Platonov ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
- The magic ring / Andrey Platonov ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
- Ivan the woner / Andrey Platonov ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
- No-arms / Andrey Platonov ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
- Wool over the eyes / Andrey Platonov ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
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'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.
In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes.
'This is a unique, beautifully edited book: an essential addition to the library of any Russophile' - Spectator
*Longlisted for the Rossica Translation Prize 2014*
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
With Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson
by "Nielsen BookData"
