Beloved tales by Tove. Finnish magical stories about trolls, gnomes, and other creatures.
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Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson is known to everyone as the creator of the Moomin trolls - kind and cute creatures, direct descendants of the not-so-nice giant trolls from Scandinavian tales and legends.
In this book, we present to you the fairy tales of Suomi country, on which Tove Jansson, Zacharias Topelius, and other Finnish writers grew up. In them, we are transported to a wonderful magical Universe, where good and evil spirits, gnomes and elves, trolls and mermaids, house spirits and water spirits exist, where magic is a reality, and cunning beasts often win over simple-minded people.
For the first time collected into a single anthology, thirty-five Finnish tales from the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century in magnificent translations and retellings by M.D. Granstrem, M.P. Blagoveshchenskaya, L.Ya. Krukovskaya, V.N. Smirnov, E.A. Granstrem, A.A. Aarne, and other literati will open for you the enchanting and distinctive world of Finnish folklore. And the rarest illustrations, created by classics of Finnish, European, and Russian book graphics, will make this edition truly unique.
Compiled by S.Z. Kodzova.
In this book, we present to you the fairy tales of Suomi country, on which Tove Jansson, Zacharias Topelius, and other Finnish writers grew up. In them, we are transported to a wonderful magical Universe, where good and evil spirits, gnomes and elves, trolls and mermaids, house spirits and water spirits exist, where magic is a reality, and cunning beasts often win over simple-minded people.
For the first time collected into a single anthology, thirty-five Finnish tales from the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century in magnificent translations and retellings by M.D. Granstrem, M.P. Blagoveshchenskaya, L.Ya. Krukovskaya, V.N. Smirnov, E.A. Granstrem, A.A. Aarne, and other literati will open for you the enchanting and distinctive world of Finnish folklore. And the rarest illustrations, created by classics of Finnish, European, and Russian book graphics, will make this edition truly unique.
Compiled by S.Z. Kodzova.
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Children's Book
Dimensions:
Dimensions:26.2x20.2x1.6 cm
Series:
Series:Tales and myths of the world's peoples
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00185-350-3
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