...Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Introduction by John Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES ... ...n Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsy... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... actually they had no relation with one another; different laws, different customs, different aims, different bonds, and different activities gave the... ...n faith and place belonging to Europe; on the other hand, in ways of life, customs, and dress quite Asi- atic. It was a nation in which the world’s tw... ...nto any village where there was a general complaint of op- pression by the revenue farmers and of the addition of fresh taxes on necessaries. He and h... ...thitherto regarded a ducat as wealth, and whose pockets, thanks to the Jew revenue-farmers, could have been turned wrong side out without any danger o... ...ri- ous lord!” “Are you speaking to me, Jew?” “To you, illustrious lord.” “Hm, but I am merely a heyduke,” said the merry-eyed man with the triple-tie... ...sir, to see whether some one will not give me at least enough for bread.” “Hm! so you want bread?” Ivan Ivanovitch generally inquired. “How should it ...

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