Vladimir Konashevich (1888-1963)

5468

Kornei Chukovskii

Тараканище

The big cockroach

Leningrad, Detgiz, 1935.

188 x 220 mm. 10 pages

Edition: 150,000.

Twelfth edition. First published  in 1923.Translated into English as Cock-the-Roach. The story of a despotic cockroach who terrorizes the other animals until he is eaten by a bird.

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Startsev 1941, no. 3963

Tarasenkov 1966, p.405

Molok 1969, p. 316

Moscow 1997, no. 517

Tokyo 2004, no. 22

Vienna 2004, p. 57

Blinov 2005, p. 209

Lemmens and Stommels 2009, p. 100

Semenikhin 2009, pp. 324-325