Marxists Internet Archive: Subjects: Marxism and Art: Literature: Children's Literature


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Texts and Illustrations

 


 

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

The Tale of Tsar Saltan, ages 9+
The Tale of of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, ages 9+
Eugene Onegin, ages 12+ (off-site text)


Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900)

The Spider and the Fly, ages 12+


Walter Crane (1845-1915)

The Donkey and the Common: A Fable, ages 12+


José Martí (1853-1895)

Naughty Nené (Nené Traviesa), ages 9+


George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Androcles and the Lion, 1915, ages 9+ Sketchbook of William Steig


E.(dith) Nesbit (1858-1924)

The Railway Children, ages 9+
Five Children and It, ages 9+
The Story of the Treasure Seekers, ages 9+
The Wouldbegoods, ages 9+


Ella Young and Maud Gonne (1865-1953)

Celtic Wonder Tales, 1910, ages 9+ (off-site text)


H.G Wells (1866-1946)

The Time Machine, 1895, ages 9+


Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

Song of the Stormy Petrel, 1901, ages 12+


Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875-1933)

Vasilisa the Wise, a dramatic fairy tale, 192?


Jack London (1876-1916)

The Call of the Wild, 1903, ages 12+
The Sea-Wolf, 1904, ages 12+
The Iron Heel, 1908, ages 13+
Martin Eden, 1909, ages 13+


Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

Winesburg, Ohio, 1919, ages 12+


Mary Marcy (1877-1922)

Stories of the Cave People, 1915, ages 12+


Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Rootabaga Stories, 1923, ages 9+
Poems, 1916-18, ages 9+


Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

The Jungle, 1906, ages 12+


Kornei Chukovsky (1882-1969)

Doctor Powderpill, 1978, ages 6+


Max Eastman (1883-1969)

Leon Trotsky: Portrait of a Youth, 1925, ages 12+


Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)

Chip: My Life and Times, 1933, ages 9+


Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)

Children and Art in the U.S.S.R., 1939, ages 12+
from The Rainbow Book, 1974, ages 6+


Nina Brown Baker (1888-1957)

Lenin, 1945, ages 12+


Khamza Khakimzade Niyazi (1889-1929)

A Parable, 192?, ages 9+


Alexander Deineka (1889-1969)

Parad Krasnoi Armii (The Parade of the Red Army), 1931, ages 6+, (off-site text)


Lydia Gibson (1891-1964)

Fairy Tales for Workers Children, 1925. All ages.
Note on scanning this work in DOC format.


Pavlo Tychyna (1891-1967)

The Feeling of One Family, 1936, ages 12+
Three Sons, 193?, ages 12+


JBS Haldane (1894-1964)

from My Friend Mr. Leakey, 1934, ages 9+


M. Mikhail Ilin (1895-1953)

New Russia's Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan, 1931, ages 12+
Turning Night Into Day: The Story of Lighting, 1936, ages 12+


William Gropper (1897-1977)

The Little Tailor, 1955, ages 9+


Yuri Olesha (1899-1960)

Three Fat Men: A Revolutionary Fairy Tale, 1924, ages 9+
(mirror of sovlit.com)


George Orwell (1903-1950)

Animal Farm, 1945, ages 13+


Nicolás Guillén (1904-1989)

selections of poetry from Cuba Libre, 1948, ages 9+


Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

selections of poetry, ages 9+


Daniil Kharms (1905-1942)

Ivan Ivanych Samovar, 1928, ages 9+
(mirror of sovlit.com)


Howard Fast (1914-2003)

Goethals and the Panama Canal, 1942, ages 9-12
The Tall Hunter, 1942, ages 9-12

see also Fast's adult novel The Children, 1937


James Erickson (19?? - )

Political Economy Illustrated, 1958, ages 9+


Yeh Tan (19 - )

It Happened in a Coconut Grove, 1965, ages 6+


Yang Yi and Liang Ko (19 - )

I Am on Duty Today, 1966, ages 6+


Liu Feng (19 - )

A-mi Wears a Bell, 1981, ages 6+


Khagendra Sangraula (1946 - )

Mangali's Unfinished 'Ka', 1971, ages 9+
A Mother's Love, ages 9+
An Uphill Tale, ages 9+


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Fairy Tales--unauthored

The Mosquito and the Horse, (Estonian), ages 9+
The Two Horses, (Estonian), ages 9+
A Lord's Promises, (Lithuanian), ages 9+
The Baron and the Shepard, (Latvian), ages 9+
The Old Man's Mitten, (Ukrainian), ages 9+
The Little Straw Bull With the Tarred Back, (Ukrainian), ages 9+


The Soviet Circus

Index of articles and images, ages 12+

 


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Last updated on 25 August 2023