Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty (Classic

Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty

If there is a certain gratification in presenting to the
English public the first specimen of the literature of a new people, that gratification is lifted above triviality, and grounded upon a serious critical basis, when the book so presented is in itself a masterpiece. I do not think that it will be questioned that Under the Yoke is a romance of modern history of a very high class indeed. That it should be the earliest representation of Bulgarian belles-lettres translated into a Western tongue may be curious and interesting, but the book rests its claim upon English readers on no such accidental quality. In any language, however hackneyed, the extreme beauty of this heroic novel, so simple and yet so artfully constructed, so full of ideal charm, permeated with so pure and fiery a passion, so human and tender, so modem and yet so direct and primitive, must have been assured among all imaginative readers.

The story is one of false dawn before the sunrise. The action proceeds, as may gradually be discovered, in the years 1875 and 1876, and the scene is laid in that comer of Bulgaria which was not until 1886 completely freed from Turkish rule-the north-west part of Thrace-overshadowed by the Balkan on the north, and then forming part of the anomalous suzerainty of Eastern Roumelia. Pod I goto is the title of the book, and I am instructed that in Bulgarian the three words Pod Igo-to mean, literally translated, Under the Yoke. The whole story is the chronicle of one of those abortive attempts which were made throughout Bulgaria and Roumelia forty years ago, under the hope of help from Russia, to throw off the intolerable Turkish yoke of tyranny.

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Country USA
Manufacturer Forgotten Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2017-02-09
EANs 9781330669037

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Forgotten Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2017-02-09
EANs	9781330669037

Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty (Classic Reprint)