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Title
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Anna Karenin, Volume III; Fables and Stories for Children; Miscellaneous Articles
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Illustrated Sterling Edition
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Original language: rus
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First edition
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By Count Lev N. Tolstoy, Translated from the Original Russian and edited by Professor Leo Wiener
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Creator
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:02:43Z
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1998-02
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1904
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:02:43Z
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Date Issued
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1904
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Abstract
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Two volumes seem to be bound together here, at least according to the publisher's pagination. After Anna Karenin finishes on 411, there is a new T of C including Aesop's Fables on 3, Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables on 19, and Stories for Children on 39. Among the forty-five texts in Aesop's Fables there is only one surprise. A polecat substitutes for a snake in licking his own blood from a file (3). Among the thirty-two fables of the Hindoo section, the snake's head and tail separate, and the tail immediately falls into a hole and is lost (19). Many of these are new to me--and good! Enjoy these stories for starters: the thread so fine that it cannot be seen (19); the servant who when shopping has to take a bite out of each pear to know if they are all good (22); the hen who does not know how to raise her chicks and so asks them to go back into their shells (34); and the goat who sees the cow being rewarded for standing still during milking and so stands still the next day when he is supposed to move (36). Among the Stories for Children one finds The Peasant and the Cucumbers (40) but no others that might qualify as fables. The five illustrations listed on vii are concerned with other literature than the fables.
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Identifier
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4098 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Dana Estes & Company, Publishers
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Boston, MA
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Subject
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PG3366.A6 W5 1904
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Leo Tolstoy
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole