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Old Peter's Russian Tales

Old Peters' Russian Tales

by

Arthur Ransome

This is an Engine House Classic. It has no ISBN.

Category: Fiction, Short Stories, Literature

Softcover, 192 pages, 6" x 9"; first Engine House Books edition

Price: $10.95


This Engine House Classic edition faithfully reproduces the text and illustrations of the original 1916 edition. Arthur Ransome collected these folk stories during trips to Russia in the years 1913 to  1915.

  • Contents
    • The Hut in the Forest
    • The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple
    • Sadko
    • Frost
    • The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
    • Baba Yaga
    • The Cat who Became Head-Forester
    • Spring in the Forest
    • The Little Daughter of the Snow
    • Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun
    • The Stolen Turnips, the Magic Tablecloth, the Sneezing Goat, and the Wooden Whistle
    • Little Master Misery
    • A Chapter of Fish
    • The Golden Fish
    • Who Lived in the Skull?
    • Alenoushka and her Brother
    • The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa
    • The Hunter and his Wife
    • The Three Men of Power -- Evening, Midnight, and Sunrise
    • Salt
    • The Christening in the Village

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