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Page 142
... Russia , fable writing became a fad . By all accounts the most widely read fabulist was Ivan Krylov whose stories borrowed heavily from Aesop , La Fontaine , and various Germanic sources . If Krylov's tales made short prose pop- ular in ...
... Russia , fable writing became a fad . By all accounts the most widely read fabulist was Ivan Krylov whose stories borrowed heavily from Aesop , La Fontaine , and various Germanic sources . If Krylov's tales made short prose pop- ular in ...
Page 211
... Russia / Soviet Union . Here history breaks cleanly into two periods : pre - 1917 and post - 1917 . In pre - Revolution- ary Russia may be observed a most dramatic illustration of the disproportion that may exist between a children's ...
... Russia / Soviet Union . Here history breaks cleanly into two periods : pre - 1917 and post - 1917 . In pre - Revolution- ary Russia may be observed a most dramatic illustration of the disproportion that may exist between a children's ...
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... Russia ; Adam Mickiewicz in Poland . In America , a Ro- mantic thread also allied with the emergence of national feeling could be seen in the adventurous stories of James Fenimore Cooper ; in the supernatural and mystic element in Edgar ...
... Russia ; Adam Mickiewicz in Poland . In America , a Ro- mantic thread also allied with the emergence of national feeling could be seen in the adventurous stories of James Fenimore Cooper ; in the supernatural and mystic element in Edgar ...
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