Fairy Tales

Vsevolod Garshin belonged to an old noble family. He was born to a military father. From childhood, his mother instilled in her son a love of literature. Vsevolod learned very quickly and was unusually gifted for his age. Perhaps that’s why he often took everything to heart.

Garshin’s writing style is impossible to confuse with anyone else’s. It always expresses thought precisely, states facts without excessive metaphors, and is pervaded by an all-consuming sadness that runs through every one of his fairy tales and every one of his stories. Adults and children enjoy Garshin’s fairy tales alike—everyone will find in them a meaning presented the way novella authors usually do.

The list of Vsevolod Garshin’s fairy tales for children is not long. The school curriculum most often features works like “The Frog-Traveler” and “The Tale of the Toad and the Rose.” It is precisely by these fairy tales that the author is known.

Yet Garshin’s fairy tales are not quite so short a list. There are also such wonderful stories as “The Tale of Proud Aggei,” “What There Was Not,” and “Attalea princeps.” In total, the author wrote five fairy tales.

Contents:
01 The Frog_Traveler
02 Attalea princeps
03 The Tale of the Toad and the Rose