Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs: Sixty-Eight Stories Edited by Ace G. and Olga A. Pilkington with Ten Stories Newly Translated
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935333003 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs reminds us that the stories that inform our ideologies are old, insightful, and significant. Even those who have read all of the Afanasiev collection of Russian Fairy Tales will find something new-four stories never before published in English. The book contains the broadest selection of Slavic fairy tales and legends currently in print with sixty-eight stories, ten newly translated. "I have only praise for their choice of stories, and for their organization." D. The Pilkingtons remedy this with a far-reaching, well-organized collection sure to tempt any folklore lover. For those of us in the West, tales from Russia and other Eastern European countries have not been as abundantly available as we might wish. "The resources in the back show careful and sophisticated scholarship. It also has stories from the Kiev Cycle, legends about great warriors and warrior princesses, about dragons and dragonslayers, about wars won against impossible odds, and loves found in the most dangerous places. It is the kind of book that anyone interested in Eastern European cultural traditions simply must have." Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, anthropologist, historia
My Daughters are holding the book hostage! I purchased this delightful book to utilize it for a research paper I was writing. I enjoyed the stories so much, that when it was time for me to read to my girls I decided to try "Vassilissa the Beautiful" out to see what their reaction would be. They absolutely loved it, my seven-year old excl. Jennifer Alderson said Fairy Tales of the Russians and Other Slavs. I had been looking for something like this for a while; something that collected up folktales preferably from Russia but possibly from other Slavic countries as well. This book turned out to be just the thing. It accurately represents the folklore of a tradition whose "high" literature is so pen. Problem with Kindle edition This looks to be a wonderful collection; I have only just begun it. But I must protest: there are NO links in the table of contents, rendering the Kindle version virtually useless! Sixty-eight stories and an extended preface, footnotes (which I wish to use for research purposes), and not one lin