Russian Fairy Tales - (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Gillian Avery (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The magical, traditional tales in this collection include "The Frog Princess", "Vassilissa the Beautiful", and "The White Duck". Ivan Bilibin's magnificent, jewel-like illustrations enhance every story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include "The Frog Princess," "Vassilissa the Beautiful," and "The White Duck." Though <b>Russian Fairy Tales</b> in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Gillian Avery (1926- ) was born in Reigate, Surrey, where she started her writing career as a journalist on the <i>Surrey Mirror</i>. Deciding that the pace of book publishing was more congenial than that of newspapers, she went to Oxford in 1950 to work for the Clarendon Press. In 1952 she married a don, Anthony Cockshut, and when they moved to Manchester she was so homesick for Oxford that she set her first novel, <i>The Warden's Niece</i> (1957), in an Oxford college in Victorian times, feeling an affinity between her own pre-war generation and the Victorian child, characterized by a 'meek acceptance of the power of the adult world'. Returning to Oxford in 1964, she continued to write novels, including<i> A Likely Lad</i>, set in Manchester, which won the <i>Guardian</i> award for children's fiction in 1971 and was successfully dramatized as a children's TV serial. <p/>Gillian Avery is also well known as a reviewer and historian of children's literature. Her two most recent books are <i>Behold the Child: American Children and their Books</i>, <i>1621-1922</i> and <i>The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children</i>.
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