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Pushkin, A. The Tales of Ivan Pushkin : The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin : Classics of Russian Literature
Moscow, USSR Foreign Languages Publishing House 1954 Hard Cover Good Good Price Clipped D. A. Shmarinov, Illustrations
Grey treated cloth on boards. 110 pp. plus notes. Volume has some vague soil from handling. Jacket is worn, rubbed and clipped on all four corners. Now in clear cover. The title pages are left side in Russian and crylliac, while the right side is in English. From Wikipedia: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin is a series of 5 short stories and a fictional editorial introduction by Pushkin. The collection is opened with the editorial, in which Pushkin pretends to be the publisher of Belkin's tales. The tales themselves are not related to one another, except that they are all said in the introduction to be stories told by various people to a recently deceased landowner, Ivan Petrovich Belkin. The introduction continues to say that Belkin was an interesting and mysterious man, even to the point that the woman he left his estate to had never met him. It is also mentioned that Belkin's favorite pastime was to collect and hear stories, several of which are to be presented to the reader." From the jacket review: "The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin were written at the village of Boldino during the months of September, October 1830. Pushkin's three month residence in this village, the famous Boldino autumn, is considered the most productive epoch in his life. Pushkin started what was a new epoch in Russian literature, introducing into Russian prose realistic and democratic trends. For the first time the common man, his everyday life, his tastes, joys and sufferings, the essential tragedy of his existence in a world of social injustice, were shown in literarure. For the first time simple clear narrativewas substituted for high-flown description, far fetched comparisons, and pompous metaphors quite alein to Russian speech, while colloquial dialogue and popular idiom aquired immense significance, lending freshness and resilience to the language."
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