Fables
By: by Shchedrin (M. E. Saltykov) ; translated from the Russian by Vera Volkhovsky.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Notes: Translation of selected stories from Skazki.
Reprint of the 1941 ed. published by Chatto & Windus, London, in series: Pelham library.
Table of contents: title: The tale of how a peasant fed two generals.; title: The very wise minnow.; title: The conscience is lost!; title: The deceitful newspaper-man and the credulous reader.; title: The rabbit who had the habit of sound thinking.; title: The old nag.; title: The carp who was an idealist.; title: Faithful Trésor.; title: The liberal.; title: The poor wolf.; title: An idle conversation.; title: A village fire.; title: The self-sacrificing rabbit.; title: The unsleeping eye.; title: The ram who could not remember.; title: The siskin's tragedy.; title: Kramólnikov's misadventure.; title: The suppliant crow.; title: The fool.; title: The wild squire.; title: Christ's night.; title: The virtues and the vices.