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Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks

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)

Year of Publication: 1834Genres: Literary Fiction,Historical Fiction

Running Time: 04 hours 47 minutes 55 seconds(12 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Simon Hoare

#	Chapter Name
	Chapter One Simon Hoare	29:26
	Chapter Two Simon Hoare	23:02
	Chapter Three Simon Hoare	17:25
	Chapter Four Simon Hoare	20:03
	Chapter Five Simon Hoare	26:08
	Chapter Six Simon Hoare	26:40
	Chapter Seven Simon Hoare	31:19
	Chapter Eight Simon Hoare	22:21
	Chapter Nine Simon Hoare	34:56
	Chapter Ten Simon Hoare	14:13
	Chapter Eleven Simon Hoare	25:40
	Chapter Twelve Simon Hoare	16:42