Item
Tales from M. Saltykov-Shchedrin
- Title
- en_US Tales from M. Saltykov-Shchedrin
- en_US Classics of Russian Literature
- 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 M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Translated from the Russian by Dorian Rottenberg, Edited by John Gibbons
- Creator
- en_US Saltykov, Mikhail Evgrafovich See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Taranov, M.A.
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:12:10Z
- en_US 1995-12
- en_US 1965?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:12:10Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1965?
- Abstract
- en_US Here are nineteen tales, for which the Russian title-page uses the term Skaski rather than Basni. They overlap with a number of stories in the edition of Fables listed under 1941/76. Generally, the stories are five to ten pages long. One might describe them as expanded fables. They are of course wonderfully witty and satirical. On this trip through I tried Bears in Government (56), which mocks heavy-handed authorities who think bloodshed solves any problem, and The Deceitful Newsmonger and the Credulous Reader (70), which spreads its criticism liberally on both sides of the title's relationship. Though the reader ends up an unfortunate victim, the newsmonger still wonders whether the best way to cheat the reader is to tell him the truth or to tell him lies. The two or three pen-and-ink illustrations for each story are helpful. In fact, they are just right for this kind of literature, which is very close to everyday journalism.
- Identifier
- en_US 4407 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Foreign Languages Publishing House
- en_US Moscow
- Subject
- en_US PG3361.S3 S43 1965 See all items with this value
- en_US Saltykov-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