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Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba's two sons.

As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, '[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.' And the critic John Cournos has noted, 'A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic's observation about Gogol: '-Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.' But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol's work his '-free Cossack soul' trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.'

 
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Hardback Editions

August 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0554266059Title: Taras Bulba (Large Print Edition)
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN: 0-554-26605-9 / 978-0-554-26605-3 (USA edition)
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August 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0554359081Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN: 0-554-35908-1 / 978-0-554-35908-3 (USA edition)
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April 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0679642552Title: Taras Bulba (Modern Library)
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 0-679-64255-2 / 978-0-679-64255-8 (USA edition)
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February 1990 : Hardback
Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
ISBN: 0-89968-509-9 / 978-0-89968-509-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
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June 1977 : Hardback
Title: Tara's Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
ISBN: 0-88411-138-5 / 978-0-88411-138-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Amereon Ltd
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April 1977 : Hardback
Title: Taras Bulba and Other Tales (Everyman Paperbacks)
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN: 0-460-01740-3 / 978-0-460-01740-4 (UK edition)
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January 1969 : Hardback
Title: Taras Bul´Ba
Author(s): nikolai gogol
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January 1966 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B002CP3SP0Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, Moscow
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1922 : Hardback
Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Risola Verlag
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Paperback Editions

February 2012 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B007F1IR7KTitle: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Publisher: University of Toronto Libraries
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November 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1440091382Title: Taras Bulba (Classic Reprint)
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
ISBN: 1-4400-9138-2 / 978-1-4400-9138-4
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September 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1149486902Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai¿ Vas Gogol'
ISBN: 1-149-48690-2 / 978-1-149-48690-0
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August 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 117702621XTitle: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasil Gogol
ISBN: 1-177-02621-X / 978-1-177-02621-5
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January 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1142003248Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
ISBN: 1-142-00324-8 / 978-1-142-00324-1
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December 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1449999999Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol
ISBN: 1-4499-9999-9 / 978-1-4499-9999-5
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December 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0979919495Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 0-9799194-9-5 / 978-0-9799194-9-7 (USA edition)
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December 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1441422854Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 1-4414-2285-4 / 978-1-4414-2285-9
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February 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1406588814Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 1-4065-8881-4 / 978-1-4065-8881-1 (UK edition)
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January 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1420930699Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 1-4209-3069-9 / 978-1-4209-3069-6 (USA edition)
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October 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1434614603Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN: 1-4346-1460-3 / 978-1-4346-1460-5
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October 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1434615545Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 1-4346-1554-5 / 978-1-4346-1554-1
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December 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0812971191Title: Taras Bulba (Modern Library)
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN: 0-8129-7119-1 / 978-0-8129-7119-4 (USA edition)
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February 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0898752337Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN: 0-89875-233-7 / 978-0-89875-233-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
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1963 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0000CLMV0Title: Taras Bulba (Four square books)
Author(s): Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol
Publisher: New English Library
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January 1962 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Signet
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January 1962 : Paperback
Title: Taras Bul'Ba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
ISBN: 0-900186-34-8 / 978-0-900186-34-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
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January 1918 : Paperback
Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Publisher: Dent Dutton
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2006 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: B001KZ0LC6Title: Taras Bulba (audiobook in Russian Mp3)
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June 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0058EWKCOTitle: Taras Bulba (Annotated with Biography)
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Golgotha Press
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March 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004RVSD7KTitle: TARAS BULBA
Author(s): NIKOLAI GOGOL
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December 2009 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0030F1AOCTitle: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Neeland Media LLC
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May 2009 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0028K2QV6Title: TARAS BULBA
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Classics-Unbound
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December 2008 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B001Q9ECYOTitle: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Subculture Books
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April 2003 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004SOVAJETitle: Taras Bulba (Modern Library)
Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Modern Library
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1963 : Unknown
Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Robert Wilson Krepps, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', Waldo Salt, Karl Tinberg
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1963 : Unknown
Title: Taras Bulba
Author(s): Robert Wilson Krepps, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', Waldo Salt, Karl Tinberg
Publisher: Gold Medal (UK)
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1955 : Unknown
Title: Taras Bulba (Classics of Russian literature)
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Publisher: Foreign Languages Pub. House
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