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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

    $2.99 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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 CAD

  • 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

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  • 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

    $15.19 CAD

  • 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

    $15.19 CAD

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Blind Ones, The

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centu-ries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Isaac Babel. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    My First Goose

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centu-ries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Isaac Babel. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Jewish Author, The - A Short Story Collection

    A comprehensive collection of stories from some of the best Jewish authors ever

    by Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Isaac Babel ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    We love to stereotype, to typecast and to pigeon hole. It’s one of our organising traits that serves many uses but also serves to stain and segregate, to find fault and to point out blame.In this volume we see if that servant can have two masters and two functions.The Jewish culture has been a mesmerizing source of life, art, tragedy, and beauty for millennia.To be Jewish is not a simple example ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus