A 1921 Soviet science-fiction classic involves the adventures of space travelers Los and Gusev, who discover an ancient civilization on Mars, become embroiled in the intrigues of its court, and participate in a surprising climax

Aelita (Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction) (English and Russian Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich

Science Fiction

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Aelita was Tolstoi's bridge between emigration and the Soviet Union. Soviet critics often cite Aelita as the outstanding Russian science-fiction novel, yet its fantastic elements derive from such Western literary influences as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs and even Theosophy. It is an engaging love story with resonances from the nineteenth-century Russian cultural tradition, but Mars is also a metaphor for pre-Revolutionary Russia and the declining West, and the social aspects of the novel testify to Tolstoi's early faith in the Revolution as an expression of something instinctive, anarchic, and deeply Russian. The novel contains a number of Tolstoi's typical themes-the power of love to overcome reason, for example, and the opposition between the intellectual and the natural man. The engineer Los, who falls in love with the beautiful Martian Aelita is one side of the Russian character; the free-wheeling former Red Army man Gusev is the other. Aelita, or The Decline of Mars is a classic of Soviet letters, but a very much "doctored"classic, which Tolstoi rewrote over the years as the official ideology changed. The bowdlerized 1939 Soviet edition was used for the only previous English translation which appeared in Moscow in the 1950s, but Professor Fetzer has restored the text that Tolstoi first wrote in exile in Berlin and published in the Soviet journal Red Virgin Soil.

Aelita, Or, the Decline of Mars

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ONCE time ago, there is a little Turnip an a unknown field. Grandpa had planted this "Little" Turnip a few years ago in the village.Time by time, the little turnip grew bigger and bigger in its place.Grandpa came to pick the little turnip, pulled and pulled but couldn't pull it up!Grandpa called Grandma.Grandma pulled Grandpa, Grandpa pulled the little turnip.

The Little Turnip: "A Russian Fairy Tale" (Cheapest Books Children Classics)

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Aleksej Nikolaevich Tolstoj udivitel'nejshij i sposobnyj pisatel' redkogo talanta, im byli sozdany mnogochislennye romany, p'esy i rasskazy, napisany scenarii, skazki dlja detej. Geroj izvestnoj skazki A.N.Tolstogo Zolotoj kljuchik, ili prikljuchenija Buratino - veselyj derevjannyj mal'chik Buratino stal ljubimcem millionov chitatelej raznyh pokolenij. S illjustracijami! Dlja mladshego shkol'nogo vozrasta.

Zolotoj Kljuchik, Ili Prikljuchenija Buratino (Russian Edition)

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Aleksej Nikolaevich Tolstoj udivitel'nejshij i sposobnyj pisatel' redkogo talanta, im byli sozdany mnogochislennye romany, p'esy i rasskazy, napisany scenarii, skazki dlja detej. Geroj izvestnoj skazki A.N.Tolstogo Zolotoj kljuchik, ili prikljuchenija Buratino - veselyj derevjannyj mal'chik Buratino stal ljubimcem millionov chitatelej raznyh pokolenij. S illjustracijami! Dlja mladshego shkol'nogo vozrasta.

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Aelita (Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction) (English and Russian Edition)

Aelita, Or, the Decline of Mars

The Little Turnip: "A Russian Fairy Tale" (Cheapest Books Children Classics)

Zolotoj Kljuchik, Ili Prikljuchenija Buratino (Russian Edition)

Zolotoj Kljuchik, Ili Prikljuchenija Buratino (Russian Edition)

Zolotoj Kljuchik, Ili Prikljuchenija Buratino (Russian Edition)