We meet Taras Bulba when his two young adult sons come home from school. It is sad and joyous like one of those Ukrainian songs which have helped to inspire him to write it.' Gogol has written in “Taras Bulba” his own reproach to the nineteenth century. 'An understanding of Gogol’s point of view gives the key to “Taras Bulba.” For in this panoramic canvas of the Setch, the military brotherhood of the Cossacks, living under open skies, picturesquely and heroically, he has drawn a picture of his romantic ideal, which if far from perfect at any rate seemed to him preferable to the grey tedium of a city peopled with government officials. However, I also watched the trailer for that movie, so while reading I was able to picture Brynner as Taras and Tony Curtis as his son Andrii. I vaguely remembered seeing the film that starred Yul Brynner as Taras Bulba, but I learned at Wiki that the movie was very different from the story. So I went to Project Gutenberg and chose this book. I have read one title by this author and remembered that I had intended to read more some day. I came across the name Gogol a few weeks ago while reading a book about Ukraine. I will come back someday and finish the book properly, so this review is only for Taras Bulba, not for the entire book. But I am not in the mood for the rest of them. I have finished Tara Bulba, the first of six stories in this collection by Nikolai Gogol. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. A masterful and brutal story of the horrors of war. Finally, they lay siege to a walled city, but Andrew, Taras's younger son, discovers that the woman he loves is inside. The Cossacks ride West, destroying everything they meet with extraordinary brutality. Taras Bulba, always the warmonger, harangues the Cossacks, engineers a change in leadership, and leads them to attack the Catholic Poles. It happens, however, that the Cossacks are going through an uneasy truce with their Turkish hegemones and the Tartar horsemen. There they spend their time drinking and remembering old glories. When his two sons return from school at Kiev, he eagerly takes them to the 'setch,' the camping and training island of the Cossacks. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century.

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