Taras Bulba

<b>The First New Translation in Forty Years</b><br><br>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.<br><br>As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[<i>Taras Bulba</i>] 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 <i>Taras Bulba</i> to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.â€