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 	Title:                         Old Peter's Russian Tales
 	Author:                        Arthur Ransome
 	Read By:                       Jay Snyder


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	 Number of MP3s:       		2 plus PARS and info
	 Genre: 				Fiction
	 Bit Rate:      			48 KB/s 
	 Sample Rate:			22 KHz stereo
	 Run Time:				02:18 h:m
	 Size:			 	48 MB(without Pars)

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Arthur Mitchell Ransome was a British author and journalist, the son of a Professor of History at Leeds College. He was best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, which tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads areas of England. The books remain popular to the point that they provide a basis of a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water -- the two lakes that Ransome used as the basis for his fictional North Country lake. He studied chemistry, but quit college to take low-paying jobs as an office assistant in a publishing company and as editor of a failing magazine while writing and becoming a member of the literary scene of London.
In 1914, he covered the Eastern Front in World War I for the radical newspaper, the Daily News. He also covered the Bolshevik Revolution, and became close to Vladamir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Old Peter's Russian Tales is a collection of twenty-one Russian folktales drawn from his time in Russia. The tales include "Baba Yaga," the story of the famous witch who lived in a house that walked on chicken feet.

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