Taras Bulba, and Other Tales: Six Tales of Ukraine and Petersburg
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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An old Cossack colonel greets his sons home from the seminary by knocking the elder down, then takes them both to the Sich and a war that will test every bond of blood and faith. Gogol moves between slaughter and lyric within a paragraph, and the steppe itself is the book's largest character. Five shorter tales follow it — St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait and The Calash. Paintings of riders, siege and horizon open this Gilded Library volume; the decoration is sabre, horsetail standard and steppe grass.
An old Cossack colonel greets his sons home from the seminary by knocking the elder down, then takes them both to the Sich and a war that will test every bond of blood and faith. Gogol moves between slaughter and lyric within a paragraph, and the steppe itself is the book's largest character. Fiv...
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Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) came to Petersburg from a Ukrainian estate meaning to be an actor, failed the audition, and invented instead a prose in which the absurd and the terrifying occupy the same sentence. He burned the second part of Dead Souls and starved himself to death at forty-two.
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) came to Petersburg from a Ukrainian estate meaning to be an actor, failed the audition, and invented instead a prose in which the absurd and the terrifying occupy the same sentence. He burned the second part of Dead Souls and starved himself to death at forty-two.
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