Fox Fables: Russian Folk Tales Retold by Alexei Tolstoy

Title

en_US Fox Fables: Russian Folk Tales Retold by Alexei Tolstoy

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: rus

en_US Alexei Tolstoy; Translated by George Hanna

Creator

en_US Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich

Contributor

en_US Rachev, Y.

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:57Z

en_US 2000-09

en_US 1955?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1955

Abstract

en_US Ten delightful tales with Rachev's remarkable work. The printing of Rachev's illustrations is exceptionally good here. I compared this edition with other copies I have of Rachev's work. The first surprise lay in how many of these stories I already have in two other works. The second surprise is that Rachev's work here is different from his work there, even for the same fables. The illustrations offer the same scene-patterns as those there, but are newly done. Thus three fables here are also found in The Little Clay Hut in either of two versions (Progress, 1975 and Raduga 1988): FC (18 here, 46 there); The Fox and the Bear (38 here, 54 there with the title characters inverted); and The Fox and the Thrush (44 here, 32 there). The English versions seem to be exactly the same as in The Little Clay Hut. In retrospect, that fact gives me a translator's name for the latter. The Fox and the Wolf (8) has illustrations echoing the patterns set in Fiabe Russe (90) from 1976. One can make the same contrast between The Fox and the Cat (22) and Il gatto e la volpe 102) and The Fox and the Hare (54) and La casetta del leprotto (46). Thus I now have translations in English for those three stories. Other stories here put the fox with the rooster, the grouse, the crane teaching her how to fly, and the lobster. The investment in this book, which seemed high to me at first, has paid off handsomely!

Identifier

en_US 3623 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78983

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Progress Publishers

en_US Moscow

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.T65 Fo 1955

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole