A blast from my past into your present

Oh my god I am so happy right now. I found this website that has, like, all of these Russian and Soviet books that I grew up reading in English translation either available for free download or just in plain text on the server. I am especially happy that one of those books is Old Genie Hottabych, a particularly insane Soviet fairy tale about a young Pioneer named Volka who rescues an Arabic genie named Hottabych from his bottle captivity. The genie then starts regarding him as his master and fulfilling his wishes. The genie is good-hearted but reactionary and praises Allah a lot, and the young Pioneer educates the genie in the values of camaraderie, atheism and communism-building.

In the following excerpt, the young Volka learns an important lesson about cheating, when the genie offers to help him ace a geography exam he has not studied for.

( Enjoy. )

If you want to read the whole thing, go here