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Taras Bulba and Other Tales
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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A collection of Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait, and The Calash.
A collection of Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait, and The Calash.
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Many feelings awoke in the young Cossack's breast.
"But how came you here? how did you get here?"
"By an underground passage."
"Is there an underground passage?"
"Yes."
"Where?"
"You will not betray it, warrior?"
"I swear it by the holy cross!"
"You descend into a hole, and cross the brook, yonder among the reeds."
"And it leads into the city?"
"Straight into the monastery."
"Let us go, let us go at once."
"A bit of bread, in the name of Christ and of His holy mother!"
"Good, so be it. Stand here beside the waggon, or, better still, lie down in it: no one will see you, all are asleep. I will return at once."
And he set off for the baggage waggon. . . Read More
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An outstanding book!
I'm a sucker for classic literature and this exceeded expectations. Gogol has a unique style that is all his own. This is alternately light and dark, comic and tragic. It's Poe, with a pinch of Dostoevsky and a dash of stand-up comic.
It was very, very interesting reading about the ways of the cossacks. The characters are appealing for anyone, it is a wonderful piece of universal literature, due to their motivations and emotions. The prose is humorous at times, agile and it elevates the character's heroic acts without being pompo
It is a pity that so much of this volume is taken up with Taras Bulba, a story that hardly showcases all that is best in the works of Nikolai Gogol. Gogol was no Tolstoy or Dostoevesky, but he had a wonderful gift for the absurd.
In Gogol’s hands, the mundane and mediocre lives of the average human
Me ha gustado más de lo que pensaba. Engancha mucho y es buenísimo para ver cómo se abordan y construyen identidades en la novela. Qué intensita.
Gogol deserves more than two stars, of course. This translation does not. It's actually a different edition than the one listed above - I couldn't find the one I read in Goodreads' database. Even the blurb on the back reads like word salad. Also, even by 19th-century Russian standards, the title sto
3 3/4 stars