Author: Krylov, I A [ Ivan Andreyevich ]
Title: Basni - Proza - P'esy - Stichi
Description: Lenizdat, Leningrad, 1969, 1st thus. Cloth spined printed boards, VG. 416pp, b/w frontis, b/w vignettes, pages tanned. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The fables, short stories, plays & poems of the Russian author Ivan Andreyevich Krylov [ 1769 - 1844 ]. Best knownn for his fables, of whist many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often with a satirical bent.

Keywords: russian literature, fables