ISBN: 9781681375397 - other worlds: peasants, pilgrims, spirits, saints (new york review books classics) (8 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 282 pp., Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler & others; edited by Robert Chandler.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2021. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. First Thus. 282pp. Wonderful collection of Teffi stories. Brand new book signed by translator Robert Chandler. Signed by Translator.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays.Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance.Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi's long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story "A Quiet Backwater," a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which "no one dairnst disturb the earth." The story "Wild Evening" is about the fear of the unknown; "The Kind That Walk," a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and "Baba Yaga," about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In "Volya," the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi's own.…

Zustand: New. Teffi (1872&ndash1952) was a popular writer in pre-Revolutionary Russia, a favorite of Tsar Nicholas II and Lenin alike. She was born to a prominent St. Petersburg family and emigrated from Bolshevik Russia in 1919. Eventually settling in Paris, she.