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  • The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume III

    Edited by Jack V. Haney ...
    Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This third volume contains 305 tales, those numbered ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev

    Volume I

    Edited by Jack V. Haney ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 6: Russian Tales of Love and Life

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    "The Complete Russian Folktale" makes available to English readers a rich folk tradition that has not been easily accessible or well known in the West. Compared to other European traditions, the East Slavs have an extremely large number of tale types. Using the Russian version of the Aarne-Thompson index to folktale types, and drawing on both archival and written sources dating back to the early ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 4: Russian Wondertales 2 - Tales of Magic and the Supernatural

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    These stories of heroism and magic, and of terrifying encounters with Baba Yaga, Zmei the serpent and Koschchei the Immortal, represent at least one example of every wondertale type known in Russia. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume II

    Edited by Jack V. Haney ...
    Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This second volume of 140 tales continues the work ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Long, Long Tales from the Russian North

    Edited by Jack V. Haney ...
    This volume of folktales from the Far North of European Russia features seventeen works by five narrators of the Russian tale, all recorded in the twentieth century. The tales, distinguished by their extraordinary length and by the manner in which they were commonly told, appear to have flourished only in the twentieth century and only in Russian Karelia.Although the tales are easily recognized as ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Long, Long Tales from the Russian North

    Edited by Jack V. Haney ...
    This volume of folktales from the Far North of European Russia features seventeen works by five narrators of the Russian tale, all recorded in the twentieth century. The tales, distinguished by their extraordinary length and by the manner in which they were commonly told, appear to have flourished only in the twentieth century and only in Russian Karelia.Although the tales are easily recognized as ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 3: Russian Wondertales 1 - Tales of Heroes and Villains

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    These stories of magic and heroism, and of terrifying encounters with Baba Yaga, Zmei the serpent, and Koshchei the Immortal, are surely the best-known and best-loved folktales of Russia. A wondertale tells of a young person's first venture into a perilous world, where he or she must solve a riddle, pass a test of character, or perform a heroic feat. In the course of the tale, villainy is foiled, ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Russian Tales of Clever Fools: Complete Russian Folktale: v. 7

    Complete Russian Folktale

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    This is the concluding installment of a splendid multi-volume work that makes available to English readers a rich folktale tradition that has not been easily accessible or well-known in the West. Compared to other European traditions, the East Slavs have an extremely large number of tale types. Using the Aarne-Thompson index to folktale types, and drawing on both archival and written sources ... Read more

    $255.99 USD

  • The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 1: An Introduction to the Russian Folktale

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    This introduction to the Russian folktale considers the origin, structure and language of folktales; tale-tellers and their audiences; the relationship of folktales to Russian ritual life; and the folktale types which are translated in subsequent volumes of The Complete Russian Folktale. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 5: Russian Legends

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    Richly represented in the Russian folktale tradition, the legends are religious tales (types 750-849 in the Aame-Thompson index) in a peasant village setting. Among the standard themes is the return of Christ, who wanders through rural Russia with his disciples. Satan appears here too, as do a cast of spirits and lesser devils. Pre-Christian gods may be recognized in tales of saints Ilya and ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • An Anthology of Russian Folktales

    by Jack V. Haney ...
    This anthology gathers a broad selection of Russian folktales, legends, and anecdotes, and includes helpful features that make them more accessible and engaging for English-language readers. Editor Jack V. Haney has selected some of the best tales from his seven-volume "Complete Russian Folktale" collection and added examples of anecdotes and the long 'serial tales' told in the far north.The 114 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD