Item
Basni
- Title
- en_US Basni
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Russian
- en_US I. A. Krilov
- Creator
- en_US Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Kastalski, V.
- Date
- 2016-08-26T13:39:12Z
- en_US 2015-05
- en_US 2001
- Date Available
- 2016-08-26T13:39:12Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2001
- Abstract
- en_US "Here is a fascinating find. The cover looked suspiciously familiar. I checked and I have a book with the same cover illustrations and format and publisher, but it is in Ukrainian and this book is in Russian. A little more checking and I realized that I had that Ukrainian book in two formats, with the same interior but two different covers. My! This book then was published one year earlier than its Ukrainian twin with the blue checkerboard background on its cover. There are several curiosities to note. This book advertises itself as presenting fables by Krilov. That book advertised itself as presenting the fables of Hlibov, Krilov, and Aesop. Hlibov was, I believe, the best known Ukrainian fabulist. How curious! Individual fables are thus not attributed here as they are there to one of these three. This book thus presents different texts with the same illustrations. The last two pages, advertisements for other books, show the same pattern: different texts with the same background and illustrations. I will copy some of my comments from there. Eighty pages offering fifty-seven fables with rich and simple full-color cartoon-like pictures on every page. Most of the fables are recognizable from their illustrations. The first four fables are GA, "Quartet," FC, and "The Swan, the Lobster, and the Pike." I particularly enjoy the depiction of "Trishka's Kaftan" on 77. There is a T of C on 4."
- Identifier
- en_US 10933 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US rus
- Publisher
- en_US Machaon Publishing
- en_US Moscow
- Subject
- en_US I.A. Krilov See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books