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Lazar Lagin.

The Old Genie Hottabych


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A Story of Make-Believe
Russian original title: ‘в аЁЄ •®вв Ўлз ( бв а®Ґ ­ §ў ­ЁҐ "‘в ал© ¤¦Ё­
•®вв Ўлз")
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE MOSCOW

Translated from the Russian by Fainna Solasko
OCR: http://home.freeuk.com/russica2 Ў http://home.freeuk.com/russica2
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The amusing and fascinating children's book is often called the Russian
"Thousand and One Nights".
Who is the Old Genie Hottabych?
This is what the author has to say of him:" In one of Scheherezade's
tales I red of the Fisherman who found a copper vessel in his net. In the
vessel was a mighty Genie - a magician who had been imprisoned in the bottle
for nearly two thousand years. The Genie had sworn to make the one who freed
him rich, powerful and happy.
" But what if such a Genie suddenly came to life in the Soviet Union,
in Moscow? I tried to imagine what would have happened if a very ordinary
Russian boy had freed him from the vessel.
"And imagine, I suddenly discovered that a schoolboy named Volka
Kostylkov, the very same Volka who used to live on Three Ponds Street, you
know, the best diver at summer camp last year.... On second thought, I
believe we had better begin from the beginning...."


CONTENTS


A Most Unusual Morning
The Strange Vessel
The Old Genie The Geography Examination
Hottabych's Second Service
An Unusual Event at the Movies A Troubled Evening
A Chapter Which Is a Continuation of the Previous One
A Restless Night
The Unusual Events in Apartment
A No Less Troubled Morning
Why S.S. Pivoraki Became Less Talkative
An Interview with a Diver
Charting a Flight
The Flight
Zhenya Bogorad's Adventures Far Away in the East