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Collected stories

Isaac Babel ; translated by David McDuff

(Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Penguin, 1994

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Translated from the Russian

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A newly translated collection of stories. His desire to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them gives Babel a duality of vision, which infuses his work with a powerful energy, from the earliest tales.

Table of Contents

  • EARLY STORIES: Old Shloyme, Ilya lsaakovich and Margarita Prokofyevna
  • Shabbes Nakhamu
  • 'AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL' STORIES: Childhood. With Grandmother, The Story of My Dovecot, First Love, In the Basement, Awakening, Di Grasso, Guy de Maupassant, The Journey
  • RED CAVALRY: Crossing the Zbrucz, The Catholic Church in Novograd
  • A Letter
  • The Konzapas Commander, Pan Apolek, The Sun of Italy, Gedali, My First Goose, The Rebbe, The Way to Brody, The Theory of the Tachanka, The Death of Dolgushov, Kombrig 2, Sashka Christ, The Life Story of Pavlichenko, Matvey Rodionych, The Cemetery in Kozin, Prishchepa, The Story of a Horse, Konkin, Beresteczko, Salt, Evening, Afonka Bida, At St Valentine's, Squadron Commander Trunov, The Ivans, A Sequel to the Story of a Horse, The Widow, Zamosc, Treason, Czesniki, After the Battle, The Song, The Rebbe's Son, Argamak
  • ODESSA STORIES: The King, How It was Done in Odessa, Justice in Brackets,, Lyubka Kozak, The Father, Sunset, The End of the Almshouse, Karl-Yankel..

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Details

  • NCID
    BA23507424
  • ISBN
    • 0140184627
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    rus
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxix, 363 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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