Strange to tell : stories of the marvelous and mysterious
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Type of record: Book
Title: Strange to tell : stories of the marvelous and mysterious
Classmark: Manuscripts MS 1066/10313 (Leeds Russian Archive)
Additional creator(s): Fischer, Marjorie (Other); Humphries, Rolfe (Other); Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (Other)
Related people: Fischer, Marjorie; Humphries, Rolfe; Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich
Publisher: Julian Messner
Publication city: New York
Date(s): c1946
Language: English
Size and medium: xxi pages, 532 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/476402
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010325909705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
The unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The wardrobe / Thomas Mann -- Adventure with a handbag / Ivan Bunin -- To Saragossa or back to the pond / Fernan Caballero -- The spector's wedding / Guy de Pourtalès -- The virgin as nun / Gottfried Keller -- Nile Punctual and his clocks / Gabriel Scott -- The haunted house / Luigi Pirandello -- The new melusina / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The princess on the pea / Hans Christian Andersen -- The waterwitch lurley / Heinrich Heine -- The spirit of Madame de Genlis / Nicolai Leskov -- The devil turned pleader / The Brothers Grim -- The ashlad who made the princess say, "You lie" / Sigrid Undset -- Federico / Prosper Mérimée -- A voyage to the moon / Cyrano de Bergerac -- Lord Arnaldos -- The story of the haunted ship / /wilhelm Hauff -- The big gravel-sifter /August Strindberg -- Perseus and Andromeda / Jules Laforgue -- Aboout Theseus / Paul Nizan -- Woman and cat / Paul Verlaine -- Bluebeard's daughter / Louis Couperus -- A domestic drama /
Georges Clemenceau -- The waterman / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Doctor Ox's experiment / Jules Verne -- The man with a national face / Maxim Gorki -- Tortoises, for luck / Luigi Pirandello --The musical conductor's story / Karel Capek -- The writer / Maxim Gorki -- The hunter Gracchus / Franz Kafka -- The stranger / Marcel Proust -- The Djinns / Victor Hugo -- The avernging film / Massimo Bontempelli -- Two actors for one role / Théophile Gautier -- Gambling Hansel / Brothers Grimm -- The wondrous wonder, the marvelous marvel / Afanasiev -- Makar's dream / Vladimir Korolenko -- Voyage to the regions of prodigies / Ludvig av Holberg -- How a muzhik fed two Russian officials / Mikhail E. Saltykov -- The elk, captured when asleep / Leonardo da Vinci -- The beyond / Arkadyi Averchenko --The wolf in the kennels / Krylov -- A trip to Paris / Ignazio Silone -- Bontche Schweig / Isaac Loeb Perez -- God's beard / Sholem Asch -- The apparition / Arnold Zweig -- The first miracle / Azorin -- The
three hermits / Leo Tolstoi -- A convent tragedy / John the Hermit -- The milk white doe -- By the light of the lanterns / Pierre MacOrlan -- The isle of liberty / Paraadis de Moncrieff -- The master of the atom / Ramon Gomez de la Serna -- The death of Oedipus / Jean-Richard Bloch -- The city coat of arms / Franbz Kafka -- Plato's dream / Voltaire -- The hunter in black / Victor Hugo -- Ms. Maillochin was going home / Yannik and Jacquelin Boisyvon -- Faithful Peter / Lion Feuchtwanger -- Hindenberg's march into London / Munch -- Laughs under the heel / Lucien Besnard -- Penitent 43 / Louis Aragon -- Sonnet VII / Jean Cassou -- From the trial of Joan of Arc -- The Miracle of twelfth night / Guy de Pourtalès -- Story for the little children of the Poilus / Colette -- In the north / Emile Verhaeren.
Additional description
Includes I. Bunin's story 'Adventure with a handbag'
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