The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev: Volume I

by Alexander Afanasyev

Book Overview

The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628460938
• ISBN13: 9781628460933
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"