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Romanian Stories (Illustrated): A Collection of Fifteen Stories Written by Some of Romania's Best Writers
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Product Description A collection of fifteen stories written by some of Romania's best writers of the late 19th century, early 20th century period, translated by Lucy Byng, revised by Tiberian Press, illustrated by Francesca Ibba: The Fairy of the Lake (Mihail Sadoveanu) The Easter Torch (Ion Luca Caragiale) At Manjoala’s Inn (Ion Luca Caragiale) Alexandru Lapushneanu, 1564–1569 (Costache Negruzzi) Zidra (Marc Beza) Gardana (Marc Beza) The Dead Pool (Marc Beza) Old Nichifor, the Impostor (Ion Creanga) Cozma Racoare (Mihail Sadoveanu) The Wanderers (Mihail Sadoveanu) The Fledgeling (Ioan Alexandru Bratescu-Voinesti) Popa Tanda (Ioan Slavici) Out in the World (Ion Popovici-Banateanu) The Bird of Ill Omen (Ioan Alexandru Bratescu-Voinesti) Irinel (Barbu Stefanescu Delavrancea) From the Inside Flap "Each one of these short stories is a little work of art, and deeply characteristic of Romanian popular life and thought; therefore I have no doubt that they will interest all those who care about literature." --Her Majesty Queen Marie of Romania About the Author "Creangă is a production exclusively Romanian; a peasant who knew no foreign tongue, but whose mind was steeped in the fairy tales, proverbs, and wit of the people. He wrote with a humor and an originality of imagery which make his work almost impossible to translate into other languages. Caragiale, our most noted dramatic author, is the antithesis of Creangă; a man of culture, literary and artistic in the highest sense of the word. The Easter Torch ranks him high among the great short-story writers. Popovici-Bănățeanu--dead very young--and Brătescu-Voinești are writers who more than any others give us the atmosphere of the English novel in which the ethical note predominates. Some of their pages have the poignancy of Dickens. The same discreet note is struck by Slavici, born in Hungary, whose Popa Tanda is the personification of the Romanian people subject for centuries to the injustice of an alien race, and driven to seek support in their own work only. Delavrancea, a famous orator, is a romantic; while Sadoveanu, the most fertile prose writer among the younger men, possesses as novelist and storyteller a touch which makes him akin to Turgenev and Sienkiewicz. Beza stands by himself. From the mountains of Macedonia he brings into the national literature the original note of the life of the shepherds in the Balkans. Constantly upon the road, among mountain tops and plains, always in fear of the foreigners among whom they pass, their life manifests a great spiritual concentration. Over Beza's work there hover a mystery and a restraint which completely fascinate the reader. Though young, he possesses the qualities of the classical writers." --Professor S. Mehedinţi, of Bucharest University and the Romanian Academy
