Author(s): Frank Freeth
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 90
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-08-09
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 6mm
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Illustrations: 203 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white

Excerpt from A First Russian Reader: Consisting Of: Part I. Russian Words in Common Use, With Their English Equivalents, and How to Pronounce Them; Part II. Easy Colloquial Phrases; Part III. Graduated Exercises Rendered Into English Notes, and Glossary. 8vo, cloth, decorated with a Russian Art Design. Russia is particularly rich in legends, folklore, and popular tales, and the literature of this kind which it possesses is particularly worth reading, not only as a matter of study, but also for delight. It is better and more human folklore than most of our more Western matter, pos sibly because it is less barbarous. It does not take its rise from Scandin avian mythology, but from a gentle N ature-worship. This volume is a good one, and worth consideration as an authentic fragment of Russian literature. -the Times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.