The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales.

Title

en_US The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Louise Seymour Houghton

Creator

en_US Houghton, Louise Seymour

Contributor

en_US Benda, W.T.

Date

2016-01-25T16:13:48Z

en_US 1995-05

en_US 1906

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:13:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 1906

Abstract

en_US This stained and very well-worn book once owned by the Lincoln Public Library has a very pleasing frame: a young boy hears stories from grandmothers while he travels and visits and makes his way through the year. The stories are wonder stories, filled with dragons and transformations and young men going into the world to seek their fortunes. A few stories include fable motifs. The Wolf as a Roman (4) has the familiar motifs of reading a hoof and singing before dying. The Sick Lion (14) is the standard fable about bad smells; it adds a round in which the wolf says that it is neither close nor not close; he is torn to pieces for his equivocating answer. Finally the fox uses his traditional I've caught a cold answer. The Fox and the Hedgehog (73) is like the Aesopic The Fox and the Goat. Master Reinecke and Gockeling, the Cock (77) has Chanticleer's challenge to the victorious fox--only here it is to pray before eating--and the fable motif Come back when I am fatter. So Born, So Die (245) is the story of the mouse-daughter who ends up marrying her own kind after each in a potential series of spouses proclaims that another is stronger than he. I like this old book!

Identifier

en_US 2075 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77636

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Charles Scribner's Sons

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.H68 Ru 1906

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole