Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks
Gelesen von Simon Hoare
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
(4,795 Sterne; 22 Bewertungen)
Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukraine, a name which means something like “frontier” or “marches”. It was an ill-defined wild border land whose borders were subject to change and whose nominal rulers had allowed it to become a nuisance to them that it might also be a nuisance to the armies of their enemies and an obstacle to their advances. It was a time when men were men and sheep were scared and those men were Cossacks.
The story concerns the lives and deaths of Cossack colonel Taras Bulba and his two sons Ostap and Andriy who have just graduated from the Kiev Academy. It is a tale of bravado, derring-do, defence of the faith, chivalry, romance, honour and above all carousing. (summary by SimonSG) (4 hr 47 min)
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Stephen Lowe
(4 Sterne)
everyone has his heros and villains...I earnestly lean to the polish hussars for heros and tartars and cossacks as villains. this has not changed. urge interested parties to venture into Sienkiewicz trilogy...Zagloba lives!
Juan Ignacio San Martin
(4 Sterne)
I liked the story but I felt the conversations were very long and the parts with more action very briefly described
Great Story! Great Reader!
(5 Sterne)
This is one of those books that I didn't want to end. Kudos for the Russian pronunciation!
amazing reader super book
Robert Farkas
(5 Sterne)
I couldn't stop listening to the reader. Excellent job amazing book.
excellent reading
Fr. John Whiteford
(5 Sterne)
the reader did a wonderful job, with this amazing novel.