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Taras Bulba / Nikolai Gogol ; a new translation by Peter Constantine ; introduction by Robert D. Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.
- Standardized Title:
- Taras Bulʹba. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 141 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Modern Library edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Russian.
- Summary:
- Gogol's epic tale, in the first new English translation in 40 years, recounts a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles, led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology, and the trials of his two sons, one of whom falls in love with a Polish girl and eventually is killed by his father in battle, the second of whom is executed before his father's anguished eyes.
- ISBN:
- 0679642552
- OCLC:
- 50339644
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