Miriam Shrager is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Her recent work appears in Slavica, Baltistica, and the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. She is an historical linguist and a native Russian speaker.Sibelan Forrester is Professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She is author, editor, and translator of numerous books about Russian folklore and literature, as well as Russian, Croatian, and Serbian poetry.Russell Scott Valentino is Professor and Chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is author of several books about the Russian novel and translator of eight books of literature in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Italian, and Russian.

• AcknowledgmentsTranslators' IntroductionAuthor's Preface1. Premises2. Beginnings3. The Mysterious Forest4. The Big House5. Magic Gifts6. Crossing Over7. At the River of Fire8. Beyond the Thrice-Nine Lands9. The Bride10. The Wondertale as a WholeAfterword: Vladimir Propp and His Historical Roots of the Wondertale, by Sergei Nekliudov NotesBibliographyIndex

Miriam Shrager is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Her recent work appears in Slavica, Baltistica, and the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. She is an historical linguist and a native Russian speaker.Sibelan Forrester is Professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She is author, editor, and translator of numerous books about Russian folklore and literature, as well as Russian, Croatian, and Serbian poetry.Russell Scott Valentino is Professor and Chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is author of several books about the Russian novel and translator of eight books of literature in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Italian, and Russian.

• AcknowledgmentsTranslators' IntroductionAuthor's Preface1. Premises2. Beginnings3. The Mysterious Forest4. The Big House5. Magic Gifts6. Crossing Over7. At the River of Fire8. Beyond the Thrice-Nine Lands9. The Bride10. The Wondertale as a WholeAfterword: Vladimir Propp and His Historical Roots of the Wondertale, by Sergei Nekliudov NotesBibliographyIndex

Miriam Shrager is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Her recent work appears in Slavica, Baltistica, and the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. She is an historical linguist and a native Russian speaker.Sibelan Forrester is Professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She is author, editor, and translator of numerous books about Russian folklore and literature, as well as Russian, Croatian, and Serbian poetry.Russell Scott Valentino is Professor and Chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is author of several books about the Russian novel and translator of eight books of literature in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Italian, and Russian.

• AcknowledgmentsTranslators' IntroductionAuthor's Preface1. Premises2. Beginnings3. The Mysterious Forest4. The Big House5. Magic Gifts6. Crossing Over7. At the River of Fire8. Beyond the Thrice-Nine Lands9. The Bride10. The Wondertale as a WholeAfterword: Vladimir Propp and His Historical Roots of the Wondertale, by Sergei Nekliudov NotesBibliographyIndex