Download or read book An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics written by James Bailey and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents translations of 30 songs recorded from a living epic tradition over the past two hundred years. The authors have captured the distinctive poetic language of Russian oral epics. All subgenres of the Russian epic are covered and previously untranslated variants included.