Under the Yoke

Under the Yoke (Bulgarian: Под игото, romanized: Pod Igoto), subtitled A Novel About the Life of the Bulgarians on the Eve of Liberation (Bulgarian: Роман из живота на българите в предвечерието на Освобождението) or A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty^[1] is a historical novel by Bulgarian author Ivan Vazov written from 1887 to 1888 and published in parts between 1889 and 1890 in a magazine The Collection of Folk Tales and in a single book in 1894.^[2][3] It is set in a small town in Central Bulgaria during the months leading up to the April Uprising in 1876 and is the most famous piece of classic Bulgarian literature. Under the Yoke has been translated into more than 30 languages. The English translation was made in 1894 by William Morfill and published by the London publishing house William Heinemann.^[4]