I. A. Krylov: Basni

Title

en_US I. A. Krylov: Basni

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Russian

en_US I.A. Krylov

Creator

en_US Krylov, Ivan Andreevich See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lambert, Eugène

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:18Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1994

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1994

Abstract

en_US Imagine my surprise first at finding a Russian bookstore in my wanderings around Kanda, and then my surprise at finding a lovely Krylov edition, and finally my surprise--after lots of deliberation over a stiff price--at finding all books were going for 30% off! And now the surprise continues as I have found the same book at less than half that discounted price in Palo Alto! The green-and-blue cover is nicely embossed. Inside are 202 fables, listed in an AI in the back; this figure is curious because the best count I have had so far is that Krylov wrote 201 fables! There are twenty-two full-page black-and-white illustrations, starting with a frontispiece of Krylov. There are also a few partial-page illustrations. I am surprised that I can identify all the illustrations as picturing fables of Aesop or La Fontaine with just a few exceptions: a partial-page illustration for The Monkey and the Spectacles (31) and full-page illustrations presenting an animal caught in an uprooted tree (29); a cock (63); a cook, a cat, and a cock (79; see Lobel 1995); a dinner scene (117); and a dead duck, a dead cock, a dog, and a fox (139). I am surprised not to see Quartet (96) illustrated. For me, perhaps the best of the illustrations is FC (11). Do not miss the piggy-back frog in FK (41). The woman in Szwede Slavic remembered this book only while we were talking and presented it proudly as an example of what Soviet book-publishing was like at its best. It is, e.g., a very sturdy and well-bound book.

Identifier

en_US 5740600669

en_US 2555 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78094

Language

en_US rus

Publisher

en_US "Dialog"

en_US Kaliningrad

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7 B3 1994x See all items with this value

en_US Krilof See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole