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Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folklore

Inglese · Tascabile

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Russian Fairy Tales is a source document for Russian and slavic folk and fairy stories with demons and ghosts, witches, warlocks, Baba Yagas and magic. These stories are a treasure trove for researchers of folk tales and fantasy authors alike.

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William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828-1889 ) was a noted British scholar of Russia and translator and Russian.He was the only son of W. P. Ralston Shedden, who made his fortune as a merchant in Calcutta and set up home in Palmira Square, Brighton, when he returned to England. William spent most of his early years there. Together with three or four other boys he studied under the Rev. John Hogg of Brixham, Devonshire, until he went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1846, where he graduated with a BA in 1850.He also studied Russian literature. He translated 93 of Ivan Andreevich Krylov's two hundred fables, and this work, published in 1868 as Krilof and his Fables, ran to numerous editions. The following year he brought out a translation of Ivan Turgenev's Nest of Gentlefolk as Liza; in 1872, his 439-page Songs of the Russian People as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life, and in 1873 a bloodthirsty collection of Russian Folk Tales. He made two or three journeys to Russia, formed numerous literary acquaintances there, and had a lasting friendship with Turgenev. He also became a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. He visited Serbia twice, and made numerous visits to Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland.In 1874 he published Early Russian History, the substance of four lectures delivered at the Taylor Institution in Oxford. His visits to Russia were mainly to collect material for another, more comprehensive account. Having contracted for its publication with Messrs. Cassell & Co, at the last moment he allowed them to cancel the agreement and publish instead Donald Mackenzie Wallace's book Russia.He also possessed a gift for narrating stories orally. He devised a novel form of public entertainment, telling stories to large audiences in lecture-halls, making several successful appearances at St. George's and St James's Halls. He gave story-tellings to the young princes and princesses at Marlborough House, and to other social gatherings; and also, in aid of charities, to audiences in east London and the provinces.(Source: Goodreads)

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Autori William R. S. Ralston
Con la collaborazione di Frank Prem (Editore)
Editore Wild Arancini Classics
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 18.11.2024
 
EAN 9781923166073
ISBN 978-1-923166-07-3
Pagine 430
Dimensioni 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
Peso 619 g
Serie Wild Arancini Classics
Categoria Narrativa > Romanzi > Fiabe, saghe, leggende

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