THE BLUE CUP

By: Arkady Gaidar

Illustrated by: D. Dubinsky

Copyright: 1981 Second Printing of this English edition

Published By: Progress Publishers

This Hard Cover children’s book is in Very Good condition inside and out.  However, there are some light stains around the edges of some pages.  This aesthetic flaw is holding the price way done for this great collectible book. 

Extremely collectible in very good condition!

About Book (Wikipedia):

The Blue Cup (Russian: Голубая чашка is a 1936 Russian language short story written by the Soviet children's author Arkady Gaidar.

The story was first published in the January 1936 issue of Pioneer. That year Detizdat Publishers released it as a separate book with illustrations by Boris Dekhteryov. In 1940 Gaidar included "Blue Cup" into two of his compilations, Rasskazy (Short Stories, Detizdat) and Moyi Tovarishchi (My Friends, Sovetsky Pisatel).

Gaidar rated "Blue Cup" high. In his 1937 "Autobiography" he mentioned the story among his best works to date, along with short novels R.V.S., School, Distant Lands and The Military Secret, and another short story, "The Fourth Blindage".

The story incited the heated discussion, parents, teachers and librarians participating in disputes, held by the Soviet literary and pedagogical journals and newspapers. Some found the story too abstract, its composition amorphous, the undercurrent issue (that of an implied family conflict) too 'adult' for the children's literature. According to biographer F. Ebin, though, the majority defended the new Gaidar's story. People wrote in, telling how young children enjoyed this atmosphere of love, sunlight and happiness pervading the story, sympathizing with Svetlana and her father who breathe in the sweet air of freedom, resent indignation at those who spoil the Soviet people's happy life, occasionally laughing at them. Adult readers certainly guessed a lyrical undercurrent… but for people of all ages the deep patriotic value of this story is obvious.

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