Simple, expressive, sincere, and poetic works of the tireless researcher of life—the wonderful Russian writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin—reveal the secrets of nature, teach us to love our native land and understand its beauty.
“…In Prishvin, words blossom and glitter. They are full of freshness and light. They rustle like leaves, they mumble like springs, they whistle back and forth like birds, they ring like a fragile first ice, and finally they settle in our memory in a slow formation, like the movement of stars over the forest edge.”
K. Paustovsky
Contents:
- “The Inventor”
- Guys and ducklings
- The Forest Doctor
- Hedgehog
- The Golden Meadow
- Zhurka
- A talking jackdaw
- A treacherous sausage
- The First Stand
- A Terrible Encounter
- Hedgehog mittens
- Lada
- Squirrel-bird animal
- White ruffle
- Conversation of birds and beasts
- Bolts
- Birds under snow
- Squirrel’s memory
- A little frog
- An island of salvation
- Moose
- Forest floors
- A birchbark tube
- Bear
- A mysterious box
- Vaska Veselyokin
- The Master of the Forest
- Deadwood tree
- What the crayfish whisper about
- Fox’s bread