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A new edition, published in Great Britain in 1971, of Ransome's 1916 retellings of "Baba Yaga," "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship," and nineteen other tales from Afanasiev. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Arthur Mitchell Ransome was a British author and journalist, the son of a Professor of History at Leeds College. He was best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, which tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads areas of England. The books remain popular to the point that they provide a basis of a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water -- the two lakes that Ransome used as the basis for his fictional North Country lake. He studied chemistry, but quit college to take low-paying jobs as an office assistant in a publishing company and as editor of a failing magazine while writing and becoming a member of the literary scene of London.
A new edition, published in Great Britain in 1971, of Ransome's 1916 retellings of "Baba Yaga," "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship," and nineteen other tales from Afanasiev. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Arthur Mitchell Ransome was a British author and journalist, the son of a Professor of History at Leeds College. He was best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, which tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads areas of England. The books remain popular to the point that they provide a basis of a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water -- the two lakes that Ransome used as the basis for his fictional North Country lake. He studied chemistry, but quit college to take low-paying jobs as an office assistant in a publishing company and as editor of a failing magazine while writing and becoming a member of the literary scene of London.
In 1914, he covered the Eastern Front in World War I for the radical newspaper, the Daily News. He also covered the Bolshevik Revolution, and became close to Vladamir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Old Peter's Russian Tales is a collection of twenty-one Russian folktales drawn from his time in Russia. The tales include "Baba Yaga," the story of the famous witch who lived in a house that walked on chicken feet.
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little stupid, little queer children, pretty young fox, little snow girl, three lovely princesses, old sailormen, little pretty one, thin black cat, transparent apple, ancient old men, copper palace, silver saucer, young archer, witch baby, corn brandy, plump hen, little gray mouse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Baba Yaga, Prince Ivan, Ivan the Ninny, Tzar of the Sea, Miss Heron, Princess Vasilissa, Master Misery, Cat Ivanovitch, Lisabeta Ivanovna, Fool of the World, The Listener, Caspian Sea, Hare Hide-in-the-Hill, Burrowing Mouse, Croaking Frog, Nijni Novgorod, Michael Ivanovitch, Babka Tanya, Holy Russia, Brother Michael Browse Sample Pages:
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little stupid, little queer children, pretty young fox, little snow girl, three lovely princesses, old sailormen, little pretty one, thin black cat, transparent apple, ancient old men, copper palace, silver saucer, young archer, witch baby, corn brandy, plump hen, little gray mouse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Baba Yaga, Prince Ivan, Ivan the Ninny, Tzar of the Sea, Miss Heron, Princess Vasilissa, Master Misery, Cat Ivanovitch, Lisabeta Ivanovna, Fool of the World, The Listener, Caspian Sea, Hare Hide-in-the-Hill, Burrowing Mouse, Croaking Frog, Nijni Novgorod, Michael Ivanovitch, Babka Tanya, Holy Russia, Brother Michael Browse Sample Pages:
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