Old Peter's Russian Tales

By Ransome, Arthur

Book Id: WPLBN0002954049
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File Size: 221.82 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Old Peter's Russian Tales
Author:	Ransome, Arthur
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children, Fairy tales
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Old Peter's Russian Tales
Historic Publication Date:	1916
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Ransome, B. A. (1916). Old Peter's Russian Tales. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome spent some years in Russia as a newspaper correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian and was peripherally involved in the revolution. In the late twenties he married Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary, retired from newspapers and started writing his children’s books. (Summary by AJM)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Children, Fairy tales