All the Best Tales

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826—1889) — a famous Russian writer, satirist, journalist, magazine editor, and government official. In his youth, he studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where his inclination for poetry first emerged. After a time, the future writer abandoned poetry and began working in prose. Saltykov-Shchedrin started writing tales in the later years of his life. By dressing his sharp parody of officials, fashionable poets, and other representatives of his time in the genre of fairy tales, he thereby enhanced the comic effect of his works. This book includes such works of the classic of Russian literature as «The Wild Landlord», «The Wise Piskar», «The Bear in the Governorship», «The Tale of How One Peasant Fed Two Generals» and many others. Suitable for middle school age.