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Taras Bulba and Other Tales
Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol
出版
Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Limited
, 2008-08
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
8132024109
9788132024101
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iqdjPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. When his two sons return from school at Kiev, he eagerly takes them to the "setch," the camping and training island of the Cossacks. There they spend their time drinking and remembering old glories. It happens, however, that the Cossacks are going through an uneasy truce with their Turkish hegemones and the Tartar horsemen. Taras Bulba, always the warmonger, harangues the Cossacks, engineers a change in leadership, and leads them to attack the Catholic Poles. The Cossacks ride West, destroying everything they meet with extraordinary brutality. Finally, they lay siege to a walled city, but Andrew, Taras's younger son, discovers that the woman he loves is inside. A masterful and brutal story of the horrors of war. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.