Тарас Бульба
By Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Cover: Moonlit night on the Dnieper (Лунная ночь на Днепре), 1880 by Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842–1910) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The old Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba brings his two sons to the Sich, the warrior brotherhood of the steppe, and rides with them against the Polish gentry. One son's love for a Polish girl and the other's loyalty to the cause end in a famous reckoning between father and sons. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.