Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Emelian the Fool a tale
    Emelian the Fool a tale
    Emelian the Fool a tale
    Ebook41 pages28 minutes

    Emelian the Fool a tale

    By George Henry Borrow and Thomas James Wise

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Emelian the Fool a tale

    Read more from George Henry Borrow

    Related to Emelian the Fool a tale

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Why The Sea Is Salt

      Mar 1, 2022

      Why The Sea Is Salt
      2 min read

    • Article

      DULCE DOMUM From The Wind In The Willows

      Nov 1, 2022

      DULCE DOMUM From The Wind In The Willows
      11 min read

    • Article

      Chuckles

      Apr 30, 2021

      Eight-year-old Tess gets home from school where she attended her first sex-education lesson. Her mother asks,“How did it go?” “I nearly died of shame!” she answers. “Why?” her mother asks. Tess says, “Khumo from down the road says the stork brings ba

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Dullard

      Jun 5, 2019

      The villagers of Yockenthwaite knew him as ‘Jack Dull’, ‘Jack Dolt,’ or sometimes just ‘The Dullard’. His real name was John Dullard, last in a long, illustrious line of Dullards, and a man – so they said – of quite miraculous stupidity. The kind of

      7 min read

    • Article

      The PROMISE

      Aug 18, 2021

      The PROMISE
      9 min read

    • Article

      How I Began to Write

      Mar 6, 2019

      How I Began to Write
      6 min read

    • Article

      In Other Words

      Nov 26, 2021

      Paul: “I grew up about 70 km north of here on a farm called Kaboom, which means grey camel thorn. I still farm there, but we bought this farm, Uitsig, 23 years ago when we wanted to settle down.” Riana: “I’m from Upington, where Paul and I went to sc

      3 min read

    • Article

      Chuckles

      May 14, 2021

      ■ Teacher: If I had two hamburgers and you also had two, what would we have? Noah: Lunch. ■ Teacher: If you had 16 cows and two goats, what would you have? Cindy: Plenty of milk. ■ Teacher: You’re over an hour late and you only live around the corner

      4 min read

    • Article

      Bunbuku The Tea-kettle

      Apr 3, 2023

      Bunbuku The Tea-kettle
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Joke

      Sep 1, 2020

      Although best known for his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury was also a prolific writer of short stories, having published his first while still a teenager. This previously unpublished story likely dates to 1950, the year The Martian Chronicle

      5 min read

    • Article

      Competition

      Jul 28, 2021

      IN COMPETITION No 269, you were invited to write a poem with the title Laundry. Bill Holloway economically made laundry stand for violence in an Upstairs, Downstairs house. Allen Tyce impressively prefaced his poem with a quotation, ‘How beautiful it

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Magic Gifts

      Oct 1, 2019

      In the beautiful green hills of the Basque Country, three brothers lived together on a little farm. The farm might be small, but it was fertile and well-kept, with fields and an orchard clustered around a trim little house, painted red and white in t

      7 min read

    • Article

      Lol

      Jul 14, 2021

      Lol
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Beautiful Salmon

      Mar 19, 2024

      I’ve always loved salmon. Not to eat, as I don’t eat fish, but I’ve always loved salmon in general because salmon jump and no one knows why. They jump all over the place—out of rivers, up waterfalls. Some say they jump to clean their gills. Others sa

      19 min read

    • Article

      Where TWO RIVERS MEET

      Apr 3, 2024

      Where TWO RIVERS MEET
      6 min read

    • Article

      STRIKE IT RICH ... With This Gem

      Oct 15, 2020

      STRIKE IT RICH ... With This Gem
      7 min read

    • Article

      There’s No Place Like Home

      Aug 17, 2022

      NÍL aon tinteán mar do thinteán fhéin,’ Rose says (it means: ‘There is no fireplace like your own’) every time we turn in through our gates and catch a glimpse of the house at the end of the drive. We have been leading such a peripatetic existence of

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Scarlet PEBBLE

      Feb 7, 2024

      The Scarlet PEBBLE
      9 min read

    • Article

      Ghoulies and Ghosties

      Oct 1, 2022

      Ghoulies and Ghosties
      7 min read

    • Article

      Marco

      Mar 1, 2022

      THE ALLEY STANK . Marco could feel the damp soaking into his tunic as he pressed his back against the wall, trying to seem like part of the shadows. He cursed himself. How could he have been so stupid? He knew if he stayed out after dark they might f

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Kobold in the Corner PART 1

      Oct 1, 2022

      THE CARVING HAD stood off to the side of the chimney for years upon years, so long, in fact, that Friedrich had forgotten when it was put there, or why. It was a curious thing, fashioned from elm wood in a crude yet appealing style. It looked like a

      6 min read

    • Article

      Lol

      Dec 2, 2020

      Lol
      3 min read

    • Article

      The King's Ears

      Jun 7, 2023

      The King's Ears
      3 min read

    • Article

      Where Does This Live?

      Dec 6, 2022

      The Roseville Hotel had closed many years ago, and the rooms upstairs had been converted to apartments, but the bar on the ground floor was still called the Roseville Hotel, because everyone was used to the name. One Saturday in January, John James a

      22 min read

    • Article

      Excerpts From The Works Of The 2024 Whiting Award Winners

      Apr 10, 2024

      The 2024 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Below are excerpts from their work.

      19 min read

    • Article

      The Christmas Cuckoo

      Dec 5, 2023

      The Christmas Cuckoo
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Third Commandment

      Nov 28, 2019

      If you ask renovators what advice they have for others, they usually reply: budget one-and-a-half times more and set aside twice as much time. I have a third commandment to add to this: lower your expectations when it comes to service providers, then

      3 min read

    • Article

      THE WOLF & THE FOX

      Jul 27, 2018

      A wolf and a fox once lived together. The fox, who was the weaker of the two, had to do all the hard work, which made him anxious to leave his companion. One day, passing through a wood, the wolf said, ‘Red-fox, get me something to eat, or I shall ea

      3 min read

    Reviews for Emelian the Fool a tale

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Emelian the Fool a tale - George Henry Borrow

      Emelian the Fool, by George Borrow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Emelian the Fool, Edited by Thomas J. Wise,

      Translated by George Borrow

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Emelian the Fool

      a tale

      Editor: Thomas J. Wise

      Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26789]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMELIAN THE FOOL***

      Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      EMELIAN THE FOOL

      a tale

      Translated from the Russian

      by

      GEORGE BORROW

      London:

      printed for private circulation

      1913

      INTRODUCTION

      The tale of Emelian, of which we give here a version, is highly popular amongst the peasantry of Russia, and is told by them at their merry-makings from the upper shores of the Gulf of Finland to the Ural Mountains.  It bears some resemblance to the tale of Aladdin, the pike playing in the Russian story much the same part as the lamp in the Arabian one, and it is by no means impossible that both tales are derived from the same myth.  But from whatever source the story of Emelian may have sprung, the manner in which it is wrought is essentially Russian, and from it, as here rendered, the English reader may form a better idea of the way of life, and the feelings of the Russian mujiks, or peasantry, than from a dozen common books of travels in Russia.  Emelian is represented as a fool, but there is much in what he says and does common to the Russian mujik in general.  He lies in the izbushka, or cabin, upon the petsch, or stove, and when told to get up, he says: What should I get up for?—Mnie zdies teplo, i ia lieniós—’tis warm here, and I am lazy.  There spoke the genuine mujik, the most prominent features of whose character are a love of warmth and a hatred of exertion, though, when he chooses to get up and rouse himself, he is capable of very great things, can outwit the tchort himself, bear hunger and fatigue better than any other man, and contend even with the Briton at the game of the bayonet.  Perhaps we may hereafter present

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1