The Little Hen or The Underground People A fairy Story for Children | Antony Pogorelsky
The Little Hen or The Underground People A fairy Story for Children
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Author: Antony Pogorelsky
Added by: mirtitles
Added Date: 2022-06-14
Publication Date: 1987
Language: eng
Subjects: illustrated books, children's books, soviet children's literature, story books, fairy tales, russian
Publishers: Raduga Publishers
Collections: mir-titles, additional collections
Pages Count: 600
PPI Count: 600
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 144.44 MB
PDF Size: 16.71 MB
Extensions: pdf, gz, html, zip, torrent
Downloads: 366
Views: 416
Total Files: 15
Media Type: texts
Description
Antoni Pogorelsky, a contemporary of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, wrote several fairy tales for children. "The Little Black Hen", one of his best, was composed for his ten-year-old
nephew Alyosha.
The book's main character is a young boy also called Alyosha. In return for his kindness and help the fairy folk reveal their innermost secrets to him. But he must keep these secrets faithfully, or his magic gift will disappear... In this story fantasy alternates with an authentic account of lige in the St. Petersburg boarding school where Alyosha Lives and studies and where everything is strictly and harshly regulated. This is reality. And it is contrasted with make-believe. For the miraculous is close at hand-you need only tip-toe quietly through some dark, mysterious chambers to enter the radiant,
colourful realm of fantasy ...
Translated from the Russian by K. M. Cook-Horujy
Lithographs of Georgi Yudin's drawings by Victor Beskrovny