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  • Red Cavalry and Other Stories

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Odessa Stories - Isaac Babel

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, better known as Isaac Babel, was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin. Despite being an idealistic advocate of Marxism and Leninism, he was arrested, tortured, and executed during Stalin's Great Purge. "The Odessa Stories" a collection published in 1931, is a selection of beautiful stories by Babel whose narratives take place in the city of Odessa. Babel ... Read more

    $1.90 USD

  • 3 Stories About - Identity

    by Sherwood Anderson, Isaac Babel, O Henry ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo ... Read more

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  • The Top 10 Short Stories - War: The top ten short war stories of all time

    by Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Babel, Luigi Pirandello ...
    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Mask 2019 Yearbook

    by Frederick C. Davis, Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, Katrina Younes, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Michael Bracken, Jonathan Sheppard, Jim Doherty, Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk, D.L. Champion, Dashiell Hammett, Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, T.T. Flynn, Arthur Rodman Bowker, Norman Saunders ...
    Series series Black Mask
    Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue. This time around, it includes nine new stories in the Black Mask vein by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Jonathan Sheppard, Michael Bracken, Jim Doherty, as well as a new article on Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister by Katrina Younes. ... Read more

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  • The Red Cavalry - Babel

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Isaac Babel was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin, known for his extraordinary short stories, comparable to the best works of Gogol and Maupassant, whom he admired as masters. " Red Cavalry," published in 1926, is his most famous collection of stories, based on Babel's experiences during the Russo-Polish campaign of 1920, where he served in the Budieni Cavalry. All the stories in ... Read more

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  • Red Cavalry

    by Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    "Amazing not only as literature but as biography." —Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Red Cavalry

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Based on Babel's own diaries that he wrote during the Russo-Polish war of 1920, Red Cavalry is a lyrical, unflinching and often startlingly ironic depiction of the violence and horrors of war. A classic of modern fiction, the short stories are as powerful today as they were when they burst onto the Russian literary landscape nearly a century ago. The narrator, a Russian-Jewish intellectual, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Odessa Stories

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A collection of “electric, heroically wrought” Russian short stories of violence, crime, and sex set in Ukraine—for fans of hard-boiled fiction by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (John Updike)Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel—a Jewish man, writing in Russian and born in Odessa—uncover its tough underbelly around the time of the Russian Revolution. Gangsters, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

    Essential Stories

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series Book 12 - Essential Stories
    A new selection of Isaac Babel's 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris DralyukIsaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence.These stories take us from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Short Stories About War

    Historical military fiction spanning the American Civil War, World War One, Russian Revolution and more

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Ambrose Bierce, Ford Maddox Ford, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Luigi Pirandello, Stacy Aumonier, Winifred Holtby ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Vincent Marzello ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right. ... Read more

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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The Europeans

    The ten best stories written from 1920-1929 by European authors

    by Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, D H Lawrence, Stefan Zweig, Hristo Smirenski, Luigi Pirandello, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Dorothy Edwards ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus