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Tove's Favorite Fairy Tales: Finnish Magical Stories About Trolls, Dwarves, and Other Creatures

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Tove's Favorite Fairy Tales: Finnish Magical Stories About Trolls, Dwarves, and Other Creatures
29.99 €
23.99 €
Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson is known to everyone as the creator of the mummy trolls - kind and lovable creatures, direct descendants of not at all lovable giant trolls from Scandinavian legends and legends.
In this book we present you the fairy tale stories of Suomi country, where Tuve Jansson, Sakarias Topelius and other Finnish writers grew up.In them we are transported to a wonderful magical universe, in which there are good and evil spirits, dwarves and elves, trolls and mermaids, domovy and watermen, where magic is a reality, and cunning animals often win over simple-minded people. For the first time collected in a single anthology thirty-five Finnish fairy tales of the late 19th - early 20th century in excellent translations and retellings by M. D. Granström, M. P. Blagoveshchenskaya, L. J. Krukovskaya, V. N. Smirnov, E. A. Granström, A. Aarne and other writers will open for you the charming and unique world of Finnish folklore. And the rarest illustrations, created by the classics of Finnish, European and Russian book graphics, will make this edition truly unique.
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