Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks, credited to Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. (Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.) Read in English by SimonSG 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks
• Author credits: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:47:55

Catalogue topics

• war
• Russia
• poland
• cossacks

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter One — 29:26
2. 02 - Chapter Two — 23:02
3. 03 - Chapter Three — 17:25
4. 04 - Chapter Four — 20:03
5. 05 - Chapter Five — 26:08
6. 06 - Chapter Six — 26:40
7. 07 - Chapter Seven — 31:19
8. 08 - Chapter Eight — 22:21
9. 09 - Chapter Nine — 34:56
10. 10 - Chapter Ten — 14:13
11. 11 - Chapter Eleven — 25:40
12. 12 - Chapter Twelve — 16:42

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