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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91529

Language

en_US rus

Publisher

en_US Machaon Publishing

en_US Moscow

Subject

en_US I.A. Krilov

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole