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8vo, pp. [4], iv, 215; a very good copy in the original yellow printed wrappers, some light wear to joints.First separate appearance of Gogol's story in the French translation by Louis Viardot, with an introduction by Turgenev, published in the series 'Bibliothèque des chemins de fer'.Written by Gogol at the age of twenty-six and first published in Russian in 1935, Taras Bulba is an epic tale of Cossack heroism which follows the eponymous colonel and his two sons, Andrii and Ostap; the former is shot by Taras for falling in love with a Polish woman, and the latter executed by Polish authorities in the novel's poignant final scene. This translation features additional passages introduced only in the second edition of 1842, in which Gogol, 'partly under the influence of a change in his own reading of Ukrainian history and partly yielding to ideological dogmas of the time, depicted Taras Bulba not only as a patriot of the Rus' land but also as an admirer of the Russian tsar' (Plokhy, The Cossack Myth (2012), p. 59).The translation had previously appeared in 1845 in the collection 'Nouvelles russes', where Turgenev is named as co-translator; in the introduction to the same, Viardot (who knew very little Russian himself) admits to having taken dictation from Turgenev and other Russian collaborators: 'I did little more than touch up the words and sentences; if the style is mine in part, the meaning is theirs alone' (t rans.). Language: French.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1853 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 449 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 449 Language: French.