Old Peter's Russian Tales

About this film

Librivox recording of Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain in the United States. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome spent some years in Russia as a newspaper correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian and was peripherally involved in the revolution. In the late twenties he married Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary, retired from newspapers and started writing his children’s books. (Summary by AJM) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (212MB)

Directors & creators

Arthur Ransome

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; children's books; Russian folklore; short stories; fairy tales

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