Interesting stories - It seems the theme is the same. I wonder if our Hans Christian Anderson Fairy tales have the same repetitive story? ( )

I bought the Kindle version of this, and I was very pleased with it. I am looking at it on my iPhone, and I am sure that it is even better on a actual Kindle or a tablet. Bilibin's illustrations are beautiful, detailed, and glowing, and being on Kindle can be expanded to see the detail. These are long versions of the stories, which is fine with me. The automatic print is a little small on the iPhone, but of course can be enlarged, and probably is no problem on a larger device. My only complaint is that there is no table of contents and it is apparently not possible to bookmark the beginnings of the tales.

Contents:
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Maria Morevna
Finist the Falcon
The Frog-Tsarevna
Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf ( )

Una bella edizione per questa raccolta completa di fiabe, curata dal padre dell'etnografia russa, Aleksandr Nikolaevič Afanas'ev. Linguista, studioso di folclore, scrittore ha riunito le fiabe popolari della tradizione, chiamate dalla gente “kazki”, ossia "le cose dette", tramandate e vive nella memoria collettiva. Troviamo in queste storie il mondo contadino e l'immaginario scaturito dal regno animale, vegetale, dai paesaggi e dai ritmi delle stagioni: bestie palanti, streghe, principi ardimentosi e principesse vittime di incantesimi. Gli ingredienti tipici della favolistica nella lontana terra russa. ( )

This is the first book that made me fall in love with the Pantheon Fairy Tale Library.

It's a collection of Russian Folk Tales, with a decent index and cute illustrations that go along with the stories. ( )

This is the first book that made me fall in love with the Pantheon Fairy Tale Library.

It's a collection of Russian Folk Tales, with a decent index and cute illustrations that go along with the stories. ( )