Favorite Tales by Tove. Finnish Magical Stories about Trolls, Gnomes, and Other Creatures

Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson is known to everyone as the creator of the Moomins — kind and lovely beings, direct descendants of the not-so-nice giant trolls from Scandinavian myths and legends. In this book, we present to you the fairy tales of the land of Suomi, where Tove Jansson, Sakariass Topelius, and other Finnish writers grew up. In them, we are transported to a wonderful magical Universe, where good and evil spirits, gnomes and elves, trolls and mermaids, house spirits and water nymphs exist, where magic is a reality, and cunning animals often triumph over simple-hearted humans. For the first time, thirty-five Finnish fairy tales from the late 19th to early 20th century are collected in a single anthology in magnificent translations and retellings by M. D. Granström, M. P. Blagoveshenskaya, L. Ya. Krukovskaya, V. N. Smirnov, E. A. Granström, A. A. Aarne, and other literary figures will open for you the enchanting and unique world of Finnish folklore. And the rarest illustrations, created by the classics of Finnish, European, and Russian book graphics, will make this edition truly unique.