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Pavel Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy tales The Malachite Box, based on Ural folklore and published in the Soviet Union in 1939. In 1944, the translation of the collection into English was published in New York City and London. Later Sergei Prokofiev created the ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower based on one of the …

One day two of the men from our village went to take a look at the hay. Their meadows were quite a bit of a way off. Somewhere the other side of Severushka. It was a Sunday and real hot. That sort of fine weather you get after rain. Both of them worked in the mines, on Gumeshky. They got …

4th of July Funny Story – One year, Jim’s family was having the “extended family” 4th of July cookout at their home. One of the special treats that year was the lighting of the fireworks (Roman candles, bottle rockets, missile batteries, etc.) they had bought out of state (they’re illegal in their state, of course!) 4th of July Funny Story: …

Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the …

Bibiji, my neighbour, a warm, attractive woman in her early thirties, is fond of odd, macabre stories, most of which have their setting in her village near Mathura (Uttar Pradesh, India). The other night Bibiji launched into an account of various types of ghosts she had known – the ghosts of immoral women – churels -who appeared naked with their …

Simile was an effervescent little cat who enjoyed laughing and giggling. She even laughed through her own troubles and did not need any company to ease her pain. On a Sunday morning, while she was going to market, Whitey cat met her on the way. She admired Smile’s red hat and asked if she could spare that hat for her. …

“केले के छिलकों का ढेर लगा हुआ है और तुम कह रहे हो कि टोनी केले नहीं खाकर तुम्हारी टॉफ़ी चुराकर खाता है” मम्मी ने नाराज़ होते हुए गिल्लू से कहा। गिल्लू आश्चर्य से टोनी को देखे जा रहा था। टोनी के चारों तरफ घूमने के बाद वह बोला – “तो अगर टोनी मेरी टॉफ़ी नहीं खाता है तो मेरी …

रबीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर ज्यादातर अपनी पद्य कविताओं के लिए जाने जाते है, टैगोर ने अपने जीवनकाल में कई उपन्यास, निबंध, लघु कथाएँ, यात्रावृन्त, नाटक और हजारों गाने भी लिखे हैं। टैगोर की गद्य में लिखी उनकी छोटी कहानियों को शायद सबसे अधिक लोकप्रिय माना जाता है; इस प्रकार इन्हें वास्तव में बंगाली भाषा के संस्करण की उत्पत्ति का श्रेय दिया जाता …

दादी और नानी की मीठी कहानियों का संसार इतना सुंदर और लुभावना है कि बाल-मन उससे बाहर निकलना ही नहीं चाहता। हर बालक यही चाहता है कि कहानी (छोटे बच्चों की कहानियां) बस चलती ही जाए। हर रात, सोने से पहले, नानी या दादी की गोदी में सिर रखकर कहानी सुनने की बातें कई बच्चों को परी-कथा जैसी लग सकती …