Books with author Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1886 edition by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. The title character of this short novel is a Cossack who, along with his two sons, joins his people's war with Poland. Set in the 17th century, the novel depicts the grim fates of the three Bulbas after one of the sons, Andri, deserts the Cossack forces to be with a Polish woman. The novel is particularly noted for its descriptions of the landscape of Gogol's native Ukraine.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Madrid. 20 cm. 207 p. il. col. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Tus libros', numero coleccion(36). Gogol', Nikolaï Vasil'evich 1809-1852. Taras Bul'ba. Traducción del ruso y apéndice,I sabel Vicente ; ilustración, Hugo Figueroa. Bibliografía: p. 207. Vicente, Isabel .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-7525-146-3

The pearl of Gogol’s Little Russian novels, is a historical novel, Taras Bulba, which recalls to life one of the most interesting periods in the history of Little Russia–the fifteen century. Constantinople had fallen into the hands of the Turks; and although a mighty Polish-Lithuanian state had grown in the West, the Turks, nevertheless, menaced both Eastern and Middle Europe. Then it was the Little Russians rose for the defense of Russia and Europe. The hero of the novel is an old Cossack, Taras Bulba, who has himself spent many years in the Secha, but is now peacefully settled inland on his farm. His two sons have been educated in the Academy of Kiev and return home after several years of absence. On the very next day after their arrival, without letting the mother enjoy the sight of her sons, Taras takes them to the Secha, which– as often happened in those times– was going to begin war, in consequence of the exactions which the Polish landlords made upon the Little Russians. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) wrote his epic Taras Bulba over a period, broken by intervals, of more than nine years: from 1833 to 1842. The profound ideological message of the tale, its thrilling and truthful characters, Gogol’s colorful portrayal of the people’s life, have immortalized Gogol’s epic.

Written by Nikolai V. Gogol and translated from the original Russian by Isabel Hapgood. First published in the United States in 1886 by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York. From the publisher promotional sheet: "It is a tale of the Cossacks, in which the author (himself a descendant of that race) describes the heroic exploits of his ancestors; their wild mode of life and warfare; the wonderful scenery, the forests, the ponds, the wide stretches, and the sky of the steppes; all of which are woven together in the form of fiction and placed before the reader in the most picturesque and vivid prose which equals in beauty the accents of the noblest poetry."