The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Ransome, Arthur

Ransome, Arthur (1884–1967),
English journalist and author of children's adventure stories. His first substantial book was Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916). In his autobiography he describes how he had seen the richness of the material in W. R. S. Ralston's Russian Folk Tales (1873), and had gone to Russia in 1913 to collect folklore material, subsequently becoming Russian correspondent for the Daily News. The tales—written mostly from memory, Ransome says in his introduction—are supposedly told by a grandfather to two children, and skilfully incorporate explanations of the Russian background for the benefit of young English readers.

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