New Book: The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

The Cinderella Murder: An Under Suspicion Novel by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke is a new release using Cinderella for a bit of inspiration. Or at least to sell a few books, although Clark and Burke seem to do okay on their own. So I had to share.

Book description:

In a first-time collaboration, “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold case murders.

Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program—a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected—is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode.

Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next episode of Under Suspicion: the Cinderella Murder. When Susan Dempsey, a beautiful and multi-talented UCLA student, was found dead, her murder raised numerous questions. Why was her car parked miles from her body? Had she ever shown up for the acting audition she was due to attend at the home of an up-and-coming director? Why does Susan’s boyfriend want to avoid questions about their relationship? Was her disappearance connected to a controversial church that was active on campus? Was she close to her computer science professor because of her technological brilliance, or something more? And why was Susan missing one of her shoes when her body was discovered?

With the help of lawyer and Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley, Laurie knows the case will attract great ratings, especially when the former suspects include Hollywood’s elite and tech billionaires. The suspense and drama are perfect for the silver screen—but is Cinderella’s murderer ready for a close-up?

Together Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke deliver an exciting publishing event: the start of a thrilling new series guaranteed to keep you guessing until the last suspenseful page.

Fairy Tales in Advertising: Spoleto Restaurants: Fairy Tale Princesses

Spoleto Restaurants: Snow White

A starving child's fantasy is reduced to food.

Didn't investigate the details, but obviously a campaign to end child hunger in Brazil with Spoleto Restaurants. They've used fairy tales before, too, much more jubilantly for a different reason. Scroll down to see.

Campaign info from Ads of the World:

Advertising Agency: Artplan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Creative Directors: Roberto Vilhena, Alessandra Sadock, Gustavo Tirre
Art Director: Carolina Lobianco
Copywriter: Roberto Sá
Illustrator: Imagina
Published: March 2012

Spoleto Restaurants: Cinderella

Spoleto Restaurants: Little Red Riding Hood

Previously, a Spoleto campaign used Little Red Riding Hood this way:

Inside that's how you'll feel.

Spoleto Delicious Pasta

Advertising Agency: Artplan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Creative Director: Roberto Vilhena
Copywriter: Ricardo Dolla
Art Director: Bernardo Romero

Via Ads of the World, too.

I've posted this last one previously. And I still just adore this illustration. The wolf is so very jubilant and the perspective is fun. Maybe I want pasta for dinner tonight...but then I usually do.

Disney's Cinderella Movie Trailer

If you haven't seen it yet, here it is.

And while we're here, I'll add this recent one for Into the Woods, too, for good measure:

New Release: Told Again: Old Tales Told Again by Walter de la Mare

Told Again: Old Tales Told Again (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales) by Walter de la Mare is another 2014 release in the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series from Princeton University Press.

So why is this a book worth noticing you may ask? Because it offers some lovely literary versions of well-known tales, ones that are suitable for all ages, but read like enjoyable short stories, more than fairy tale specimens. Walter de la Mare had a talent for this--as did Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch--and these type of rewritings were popular with the reading public when they were first published.

The tales are fully recognizable but he gives them his own spin. Little Red Riding Hood is vain, for example. The old soldier in Twelve Dancing Princesses doesn't marry a princess, but happily requests pigs for his reward. Many of the small changes and nuances are surprisingly modern in sensibility. Overall, de la Mare fills in plot holes and gives more precise motivations to characters.  For example, the final paragraph in his "Sleeping Beauty" is such:

The seventh day afterwards was appointed for the marriage of the Prince and the Princess. But when word was sent far and near, bidding all the Fairy Women to the wedding--and these think no more of time than fish of water--one of them again was absent. And since--early or late--she never came, it seems that come she couldn't. At which the King and Queen heartily rejoiced. The dancing and feasting, with music of harp and pipe and drum and tabor, continued till daybreak; for, after so long a sleep, the night seemed short indeed.

This new volume also contains all of the illustrations by A. H. Watson, but the color illustrations are only rendered in black and white.

And that is why the book is special. It makes the familiar charming. Readers as young as 8 or 9 years of age will enjoy the renditions offered here and they read aloud quite beautifully, too.

Book description:

Originally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales, showcasing the formidable talents of a writer who used magical realism before the term had even been invented. Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) was one of the most celebrated writers of children’s literature during the first half of the twentieth century—so much so that W. H. Auden edited a selection of his poems and British children could recite de la Mare’s verses by heart. His abundant literary gifts can be savored once more in this new edition. With marvelous black and white illustrations by A. H. Watson, this volume includes a splendid introduction by Philip Pullman, the contemporary master of fantasy literature.

The significance of the nineteen adapted classics in Told Again lies in de la Mare’s poetic insights and graceful prose, which—as Pullman indicates in his introduction—soften and sweeten the originals, making these tales appropriate for younger readers. In “The Four Brothers,” the siblings allow the princess to choose her own husband rather than argue over her; and in “Rapunzel,” de la Mare discreetly leaves out details of the prince’s tortured, blind search for his love. Familiar stories, such as “Little Red Riding-Hood,” “Rumplestiltskin,” and “The Sleeping Beauty” are also made new through de la Mare’s expansive, descriptive, and lyrical prose. Pullman covers important details about de la Mare’s life and captures the stylistic intention behind the rewriting of these wonderful favorites.

Reviving the work of a writer who exemplified a romantic vision and imagination, Told Again is a remarkable retelling of fairy tales touched by mystery and magic.

Philip Pullman’s many books include the best-selling and award-winning children’s series, His Dark Materials (Knopf). He recently edited and introduced Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (Viking).

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations vii
Introduction 1
Told Again
The Hare and the Hedgehog 11
The Four Brothers 18
The Musicians 29
Dick Whittington 37
Cinderella and the Glass Slipper 50
The Dancing Princesses 68
Little Red Riding-Hood 81
Jack and the Beanstalk 92
The Turnip 117
The Wolf and the Fox 129
The Three Sillies 136
Bluebeard 144
Snow-White 156
The Twelve Windows 170
Clever Grethel 182
Rumplestiltskin 188
The Sleeping Beauty 200
Molly Whuppie 214
Rapunzel 223

Praise for previous editions:

"Walter de la Mare has given the familiar old tales so much sparkle and humor and romance that they are like new stories."--Horn Book Magazine

"The 19 familiar and long loved tales . . . reach literary heights with masterly retelling."--Chicago Daily Tribune

"There is a wealth of precise and illuminating detail. . . . And there are individual touches that only a poet would think of."--New York Times

Praise for this edition:

"This superb edition of Told Again brings a neglected work to twenty-first-century readers and is a great addition to the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series. As Pullman’s introduction shows, the collection sheds light on a poet’s view of the wonder tale and its near relatives."--Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg

"This eclectic collection of nineteen folk and fairy tales is without a doubt historically significant, and de la Mare seasons these concise and briskly paced retellings with a subtle, poetic musicality."--Mick Gowar, Anglia Ruskin University

Event in Oxford on 11/27/14: Marina Warner--Voices in the Dark: Fairy tales in our time

The readership for SurLaLune is truly international--I don't know of a country that hasn't accessed the SurLaLune site according to the analytics. Next week on November 27th (Thanksgiving Day in the US), there is a special event with Marina Warner in Oxford that some readers here may be able to attend. So I am sharing. When I do share events like this, I always get thank yous for doing so from people who attend and wouldn't have without reading about it here, so here goes. The event, of course, will also help promote Warner's new book, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

Marina Warner--Voices in the Dark: Fairy tales in our time

About the event:

From beautiful princesses, giants, and goblins to, glass slippers, poisoned apples, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have bewitched readers and audiences, young and old, for centuries. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant and inspire than a fairy tale.

But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they tell us about morality, sexuality, and society? Fairy tales stretch across long distances and times; they mingle with folklore and myth, and have inspired ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism.

Marina Warner explores fairy tales through the ages, and their appearance on page, stage and screen. From the Grimm’s Cinderella to modern films such as Pan’s Labyrinth, Warner investigates the best of the genre, and demonstrates how fairy tales affect human understanding and culture.

About Marina Warner

Marina Warner’s award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976; re-issued 2013), Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (2012), From the Beast to the Blonde – on Fairy Tales and their Tellers (1994), Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were published in 2001; her essays on literature and culture were collected in Signs & Wonders (2000), and Phantasmagoria, a study of spirits and technology, appeared in 2006. In 2013 she was awarded a Sheykh Zayed Prize and the Truman Capote Award. She was awarded a CBE for services to Literature in 2008. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

Place:

The Story Museum
Rochester House
42 Pembroke Street
Oxford OX1 1BP
+44 (0)1865 790050

Time:
18.00

A 30-minute talk with 20-minute Q & A session.

Tickets:
£7.50 / £5

Booking:
Tickets can be booked at our Tickets Oxford page, or by phoning the ticket hotline at 01865 305305.

On the day of the event, tickets will only be available at The Story Museum. Our office number is 01865 790050 – but please be aware that the office is not regularly manned at weekends.

New Book: Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes

Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes is officially released next week despite its 2015 copyright date and it is shipping now. A review copy arrived on my doorstep yesterday so I haven't had sufficient time to spend with it, but next week on the official release date, most of you readers in the U.S. are going to have Thanksgiving on the brain, not nonfiction folklore books. So I'm trying to post about the nonfiction titles this week and will focus on lighter-hearted stuff next week--toys and such.

You can read the introduction to the book on the Princeton University Press website at Introduction.

And, yes, this book can be considered a companion to The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition which is also currently the #1 Bestseller in Mythology & Folk Tales on Amazon. In that book, Zipes offers us the earliest published versions of the Grimms' tales. In this one, he discusses the history, impact--yes, the legacy--of these collected tales which is usually considered one of the bestselling books of all time. That last bit is not easily provable since there have been countless editions of the tales, too, but the Grimms easily surpass other bestsellers, even Harry Potter, in history. (For a discussion of bestselling book stats in all time--which leaves out the Grimms--see The 21 Best-selling Books of All Time.)

Book description:

In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale.

Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept coming. Zipes looks at the transformation of the Grimms’ tales into children’s literature, the Americanization of the tales, the “Grimm” aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales’ utopian impulses. He shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk-tale collecting that continue through the current era. Zipes concludes with a look at contemporary adaptations of the tales and raises questions about authenticity, target audience, and consumerism.

With erudition and verve, Grimm Legacies examines the lasting universal influence of two brothers and their collected tales on today’s storytelling world.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures ix
Preface: Legacies and Cultural Heritage xi
Introduction The Vibrant Body of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales, Which Do Not Belong to the
Grimms 1
Chapter One German Popular Stories as Revolutionary Book 33
Chapter Two Hyping the Grimms' Fairy Tales 58
Chapter Three Americanization of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales: Twists and Turns of History 78
Chapter Four Two Hundred Years after Once Upon a Time: The Legacy of the Brothers Grimm and
Their Tales in Germany 109
Chapter Five How Superheroes Made Their Way into the World of Fairy Tales: The Appeal of Cooperation and Collective Action from the Greek Myths to the Grimms' Tales and Beyond 131
Chapter Six The Grimmness of Contemporary Fairy Tales: Exploring the Legacy of the Brothers Grimm in the Twenty-First Century 152
Epilogue A Curious Legacy: Ernst Bloch's Enlightened View of the Fairy Tale and Utopian Longing, or Why the Grimms' Tales Will Always Be Relevant 187
Appendix: "About Pincaruolo's Good Feat," by Giovanni Sercambi 197
Notes 205
Bibliography 219
Filmography 247
Index 255

New Book: Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Ann Schmiesing

Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) by Ann Schmiesing is a new release this month, part of the Series in Fairy-Tale Studies from Wayne State University Press.

As I perused this book, I realized again just how rich a topic it is although there isn't much scholarship on the subject of disability, deformity, and disease in fairy tales and folklore. As I studied the works cited, there were about 10-15 journal articles on the topic as well as two books that deal specifically with the subject, including The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity toward Social Liberation by Betty M. Adelson and Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile (Toronto Italian Studies) by Suzanne Magnanini.

Schmiesing's focus, obviously, is on the Grimms. She studied 77 of the brothers' tales and provides interesting discussion of the portrayals of the unusual in fairy tales. After all, what better method than folklore to help explain away the mysterious medical issues of centuries past? Or to help mark the marginalization of characters. Fairy tales are often unkind to the marginalized--if they are not the hero of the story, they are often the antagonist, with physical markers to explain their level of evilness. Or if they are the hero, their good works are usually rewarded with the cure for their physical ailments or limitations.

I myself have always been fascinated with the concept of changelings--what a comforting and frustrating way to try to explain the onset of autism or similar conditions in what was once a "normal" behaving child? Your once loving, affectionate child develops into a different being who abhors your touch and doesn't emote like you? Changeling! Blame the fairies.

So overall, a fascinating book on the topic, a needed book, that will hopefully trigger more thoughtful study and analysis.

Book description:

Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes various representations of disability in the tales and also shows how the Grimms' editing (or "prostheticizing") of their tales over seven editions significantly influenced portrayals of disability and related manifestations of physical difference, both in many individual tales and in the collection overall.

Schmiesing begins by exploring instabilities in the Grimms' conception of the fairy tale as a healthy and robust genre that has nevertheless been damaged and needs to be restored to its organic state. In chapter 2, she extends this argument by examining tales such as "The Three Army Surgeons" and "Brother Lustig" that problematize, against the backdrop of war, characters' efforts to restore wholeness to the impaired or diseased body. She goes on in chapter 3 to study the gendering of disability in the Grimms' tales with particular emphasis on the Grimms' editing of "The Maiden Without Hands" and "The Frog King or Iron Henry." In chapter 4, Schmiesing considers contradictions in portrayals of characters such as Hans My Hedgehog and the Donkey as both cripple and "supercripple"-a figure who miraculously "overcomes" his disability and triumphs despite social stigma. Schmiesing examines in chapter 5 tales in which no magical erasure of disability occurs, but in which protagonists are depicted figuratively "overcoming" disability by means of other personal abilities or traits.

The Grimms described the fairy tale using metaphors of able-bodiedness and wholeness and espoused a Romantic view of their editorial process as organic restoration. Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales shows, however, the extent to which the Grimms' personal experience of disability and illness impacted the tales and reveals the many disability-related amendments that exist within them. Readers interested in fairy-tales studies and disability studies will appreciate this careful reading of the Grimms' tales.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Able-bodied Aesthetics? The Grimms’ Preface to the Kinder—und Hausmärchen
2. The Simulacrum of Wholeness: Prosthesis and Surgery in “The Three Army Surgeons” and “Brother Lustig”
3. Gender and Disability: The Grimms’ Prostheticizing of “The Maiden without Hands” and “The Frog King or Iron Henry”
4. Cripples and Supercripples: The Erasure of Disability in “Hans My Hedgehog,” “The Donkey,” and “Rumpelstiltskin”
5. “Overcoming” Disability in the Thumbling, Dummy, and Aging Animal Tales
Conclusion
Appendix: Table of KHM Tales Studied
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Complete Russian Folktale Series by Jack V. Haney

Yesterday I did my version of a happy dance with a post about New Book: The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev: Volume I by Jack V. Haney. In that post I promised to share the details about Haney's previous magnum opus, the Complete Russian Folktale Series, published by Routledge. With seven volumes, just sharing covers, titles, and descriptions makes for a longer than average post, so I am sticking with that. Usually, only university libraries with a decent folklore collection own all seven volumes but this is one of the most important collections of Russian folklore in English translation around.

The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 1: An Introduction to the Russian Folktale by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

This engaging 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 that are translated in subsequent volumes of The Complete Russian Folktale.

The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 2: The Animal Tales by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

This collection of 150 ancient Russian animal tales illustrates all 119 animal tale types. They feature forest animals and domestic animals. Fish and birds appear less often, and humans play a minor role, if any, in these tales. But it is human, not animal, behaviour that is displayed by the sneaky, greedy, adulterous, murderous, conniving and egotistical creatures who populate them. These stories, translated to preserve the art of the village storyteller, both entertained peasant children and taught them lessons needed in their quest for survival.

The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 3: Russian Wondertales 1 - Tales of Heroes and Villains by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

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, disaster is averted, and the young person is transformed by this successful struggle into an adult.

The two hundred and fifty wondertales collected and translated here represent at least one example of every tale type known in Russia. Each tale is accompanied by commentary and the volume includes a substantial introduction by the editor.

The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 4: Russian Wondertales 2 - Tales of Magic and the Supernatural by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

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.

The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 5: Russian Legends by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

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 Nikolai (Elijah and Saint Nicholas). The hapless peasant in these tales - cheated, betrayed, impoverished, foolish, orphaned, crippled - take the reader deep into the traditional village culture of Russia and into the imperfect human quest for moral choice and justice on this earth.

The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 6: Russian Tales of Love and Life by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

"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 sixteenth century, J.V. Haney has assembled and translated examples of the full range of tales. Nearly all of these tales will appear here in translation for the first time. Volume 6 presents tales classified 850-999, which describe the travails of young people who are seeking happiness and love. They portray acts of fate, prophecy, and even divine justice, in a village context of social misery, folk tradition, the aggravations of family life, and the heartaches of the lovelorn. J.V. Haney's extensive introduction and annotations explain the structure of the tales, their place in the A-T system and in folklore studies, and the specifics of their Russian provenance.

Russian Tales of Clever Fools: Complete Russian Folktale: v. 7 by Jack V. Haney

Book description:

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 dating back to the early sixteenth century, J.V. Haney has assembled and translated examples of the full range of tales. Nearly all of these tales appear here in translation for the first time. The tales in this volume center on the so-called fool, the village simpleton. However, Ivan, the Russian everyman, turns out to have far more sense than his would-be oppressors. The greedy priests and landlords and dim-witted demons who try to take advantage of him are easily outsmarted. In the end it is they who are shown to be the fools as Ivan outwits or outlasts them. In these unequal contests lies the pleasure of the tales.

Finally An Anthology of Russian Folktales is more affordable for personal libraries. It draws from Haney's seven-volume "Complete Russian Folktale" and is currently listed with a deep, deep discount on Amazon, pretty much 11% of its original list price.

Bargain Book: An Anthology of Russian Folktales by Jack V. Haney

An Anthology of Russian Folktales by Jack V. Haney is technically a bargain book at the moment, priced at $18.34 on Amazon. Bargain, you ask? Yes, when the list price is $175 and that is the price you would pay at publisher Routledge's site right now. This appears to be a rerelease with the same ISBNs but with a significant price drop that may or may not be temporary. It draws from Haney's seven-volume "Complete Russian Folktale" which I will be posting about tomorrow that is cost prohibitive for most personal libraries.

Book description:

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 tales included here represent every genre found in the Russian tradition. They date from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries and come from all geographic regions of the Russian-speaking world. The collection is enhanced by a detailed introduction to the folktale and its types, brief introductions to each grouping of tales, head notes with interesting background for individual tales, and a glossary explaining Russian terms.

Table of Contents (incomplete but helpful all the same):

Preface
Glossary
Introduction

I. Animal Tales
Sister Fox and the Wolf
The Peasant, the Bear, and the Fox
The Pig Set Off For the Games
The Fox as Keener
The Fox as Confessor
A Wolf-Gray and Daring
The Fox and the Jug
The Bear and the Beam
The Peasant, the Bear, the Fox, and the Gadfly
The Case of the Beekeeper and the Bear
The Bear
The Mushrooms
The Sun, the Wind, and the Moon

II. Tales of Heroes and Villains
Nikita the Tanner
Ivan the Mare's Son
Maria Morevna
The Witch and the Sun's Sister
The Milk of Wild Beasts
Baba Yaga and the Nimble Youth
Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf
The Maiden Tsar
Elena the Wise
The Frog Tsarevna
The Petrified Tsarevna
Fenist the Bright Falcon Feather
How the Tsar's Daughter Came to Know Need
Go Where You Know Not Where, Bring Back You Know Not What
The Mare's Head
Baba Yaga
The Swan-Geese
Vasilisa the Beautiful

III. Tales of Magic
A Prince and His Uncle
The Golden Slipper
Burenushka the Little Red Cow
Sivko-Burko
The Pig with the Golden Bristles
Dirty Face
Ivan Tsarevich, the Gray Wolf, and Elena the Most Beautiful
The Rejuvenating Applies
The Three Sons-in-Law
The Everlasting Piece
Little Boy Green
The Fiddler in Hell
The Snow Maiden
The Armless Maiden

IV. Legends
The Poor Widow
The Serpent
The Hermit and the Devil
The Proud Rich Man
The Bigamist
The Old Woman in Church
The Golden Saucer and the Silver Apple
SS. Kas'ian and Nikolai
Why Women Lost Their Rights
The Tale of a Drunkard
Who Brought Vodka to Rus
The Forest Spirit
The Skomorokh Vavilo

V. Tales of Love and Life
The Self-Playing Gusli
About Ivan the Fool
The Philosopher and the Cripple
The Soldier Erema the Crafty
The Peasant and the Devil
The White-Bearded Old Man
The Tsar and the Two Craftsmen
The Wise Seven-Year-Old Girl
Tsar Peter and the Clever Woman
The Clever Daughter (or the Dispute Over a Colt)
How I Became Head of the Division
The Merchant's Daughter
A Hunter Rescues a Maiden
The Woman From the Grave
About Savvushka
The Son-in-Law Teaches His Wife and Mother-in-Law
How Peter and a Hunter Went Hunting
Peter the Great Ate the Murzovka
The Carefree Monastery
Why There Is Treason in Rus
Eaten By a Wolf
How a Lad Bought Wisdom
Why They Stopped Banishing Old Men
How the Bear Killed the Robbers
The Soldier and Death
The Golden Pitcher
Peter the Great and the Three Soldiers
The Monk and the Abbess

VI. Tales of Clever Fools
Balda the Laborer
The Laborer and the Priest
Horns
How Klimka Stole the Landlord's Wife
Shabarsha the Laborer
About a Sly Peasant and a Priest
About Egibikha (Baba Yaga)
A Lad Who Watched Rusalki
The Tsar and the Peasant
The Peasant and the Devil
The Devil Takes the Soldier's Watch
Whence Came Baba Yaga
The Wizard
VII. Anecdotes
The Dog Tsuvarnachka
Those Folks From Pskov
A Tailor or a Crayfish
The Mare's Egg
Kostia
The Lord of the Manor
How the Soldier Sold the Speck Unsalted Custard
If You Don't Like It, Don't Listen!
The Turnip
Roundsides
The Sad Story of a Raven

VIII. Serial Tales From the Far North