Isabel Florence Hapgood était une œcuméniste, écrivaine et traductrice américaine. Elle excellait particulièrement dans la traduction de textes russes et français, enrichissant ainsi le paysage littéraire. Son travail a servi à jeter des ponts entre les cultures et à présenter aux lecteurs des œuvres littéraires inconnues. Elle a contribué à la diffusion d'idées à travers les clivages linguistiques et culturels.
Presented here in a masterful new translation by Michael Pursglove, this landmark collection established the literary reputation of the author, who considered it his most significant contribution to Russian literature, and is universally regarded as a milestone in the Russian realist tradition.
Brand-new translation of one of Turgenevs major novels, includes pictures and an extensive section on Turgenevs life and works.
Gogol's epic tale, in the first new English translation in 40 years, recounts a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles, led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology, and the trials of his two sons, one of whom falls in love with a Polish girl and eventually is killed by his father in battle, the second of whom is executed before his father's anguished eyes.