Folk Tales from the Russian

Sinopsis del libro

Russian tales as they were told rather than as they were tidied: Baba Yaga's hut on hen's legs, the frog princess, the seven Simeons, the girl sent to fetch fire from the witch. Verra de Blumenthal translated them in 1903 from the versions she had heard as a child, and kept the cruelty and the sudden mercies both. The…