Item
Fables by Shchedrin
- Title
- en_US Fables by Shchedrin
- en_US The Phoenix Library
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Original language: rus
- en_US Shchedrin (Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov); translated from the Russian by Vera Volkhovsky
- Creator
- en_US Saltykov, Mikhail Evgrafovich See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:28:48Z
- en_US 2012-12
- en_US 1931
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:28:48Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1931
- Abstract
- en_US Here is the original of a book I have in a 1976 reproduction by Greenwood Press. Strangely, that book reports its original as published in 1941, whereas all indications here are that this book was published rather in 1931. As I mention there, there are here twenty-two highly political fables published at various times in Saltykov's life (1826-89). Though talky and longish, they are witty and often devastating. Some verge on Juvenal's satires. The translator's helpful introduction gives the social and political Sitz im Leben. The Carp Who Was an Idealist seems typical. The Very Wise Minnow speaks well of life as risk.
- Identifier
- en_US 5075 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Chatto and Windus
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PG3361.S3 F3 1931 See all items with this value
- en_US Shchedrin 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