| #6994159 in Books | 1995-10-12 | Format: International Edition | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.27 x.71 x6.30l,.82 | File type: PDF | 184 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very good Translations|By J. Dumas|I love fairytales that are regionally focused, we have a close family friend that is from Russia and I bought this with her in mind, when I told her the stories and shared the book with her she was thrilled to see such a good translation of stories that she had almost forgotten from her childhood. This book is not a complete collection of Rus|From the Inside Flap|Illustrated by Ivan Bilibin|About the Author|Gillian Avery (1926- ) was born in Reigate, Surrey, where she started her writing career as a journalist on the Surrey Mirror. Deciding that the pace
The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career. In 1899 the Department for the Production of State Documents asked this young Russian artist to illustrate a series of fairy tales, a task that took him four years to complete and inspired his finest work, reflecting his deep love for his country and his passionate interest in its national dress and wooden archit...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Russian Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) | Gillian Avery. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
