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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £28.79Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to... -
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel 9780393324020
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.49Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of... -
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one... -
The Essential Fictions by Isaac Babel 9780810135956
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous... -
1920 Diary by Isaac Babel 9780300093131
Booksplease Price: £25.26This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer recounts Babel's experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Cavalry, Babel's best-known... -
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel 9798888305249
Booksplease Price: £13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888305249Author Isaac BabelFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher... -
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel 9798888305256
Booksplease Price: £22.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888305256Author Isaac BabelFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher... -
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel 9780393324235
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.90One 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... -
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Throughout 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... -
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories Isaac Babel 9781805332831
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context by Gregory Freidin
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made... -
A Study Guide for Isaac Babel's My First Goose by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375384872
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375384872Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gale, Study... -
18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages by Nora Gold 9798887192055
RRP: £43.82Booksplease Price: £31.77A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.This is... -
18: Jewish Stories from Around the World, Translated from 18 Languages by Nora Gold 9798887192062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies Category This anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is... -
Isaac Babel: the Lonely Years, 1925-1939: Unpublished Stories and Private Correspondence by I. Babel 9780879239787
Booksplease Price: £12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879239787Author I. BabelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint David R. Godine Publisher... -
The Novel of a Novel: Abridged Diary Entries from Moscow, 1935-1937 by Ervin Sinko 9781498546362
Booksplease Price: £113.41One of the first critiques of Stalinism from within the communist movement, The Novel of a Novel is a memoir in the form of a journal. It was first published in Yugoslavia in 1955 based on the... -
A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history. As Grossman... -
The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works: Introduced by Jon McGregor by Leonid Tsypkin 9780571386918
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31"Everything is always topsy-turvy here," he said.A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and... -
Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature by Rachel Rubin 9780252025396
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70A look at the Jewish gangster between the wars (focusing on the Russian writer, Isaac Babel, and Americans Gold, Ornitz, and Fuchs but also taking into consideration cartoons, movies, and modernist... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691149462
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691165813
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.71Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas 9780810125858
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Linking new readings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, and Osip Mandelstam to the work of Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, ""The Trace of Judaism"" asks: how does Judaism haunt Russian... -
Confessions by Augustine 9780393427998
Booksplease Price: £9.95"There are times when Augustine seems all too self-consciously in control of his performance, but there are moments when the role of penitent sinner turned ecstatic worshipper ceases to be a role and... -
Portraits Without Frames: Selected Poems by Lev Ozerov 9781783784714
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Lev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris... -
Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86WINNER - Best American Play, Obie Awards 2018 In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. In 1990, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and... -
Odessa at Dawn: 2022 by Sally McGrane 9783863913380
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment. But things veer off course when the severed hand of the local governor shows up in a vat of sunflower oil. Max... -
The Torch In My Ear Elias Canetti 9781847083579
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume of autobiography. Using as a framework his admiration for his first... -
Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters by Georgy Ivanov 9781618114549
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £74.84Petersburg Winters (1928), a portrait of Petersburg drowning in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. Georgy Ivanov is the fictional narrator of this tragic and artistically... -
Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture by Marcus C. Levitt 9780299224301
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.92From the country that has added to our vocabulary such colorful terms as ""purges,"" ""pogroms,"" and ""gulag,"" this collection... -
Horse Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnificent stallions, broken-down nags, racehorses,... -
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and... -
Tilled Fields and Battlefields by Vladislav Vancura 9788024648149
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.29Originally published in 1925, Plowshares into Swords is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav Vancura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the... -
The Holocaust Novel Efraim Sicher 9780415967976
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to... -
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to... -
Oblomov by I. A. Goncharov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt... -
Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop by Amelia M. Glaser
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Studies of eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser reveals the rich cultural exchange among... -
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.65From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan... -
How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich 9780674238190
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £29.35A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the... -
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries... -
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution Harold Shukman (St. Antony's College, Oxford) 9780631195252
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £37.92This single volume is an authoritative and accessible guide to the background and progress of the Revolution, written by a team of over forty specialist contributors. Beginning with the radical...