The Collected Stories
by Isaac Babel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Peebles, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Condition: Good; there is light bumping to the boards, no DJ. The interior is clean without markings, except on the inside front cover, where there is a newspaper clipping from 1957 regarding the book itself. First edition. 381 pages.
Synopsis
Isaac Babel was born in Odessa in 1894, the son of a Jewish tradesman. At the age of twenty-one he went to St Petersburg, where he had to avoid the Tsarist police because he lacked the residence certificate required of all Jews. Gorky was the first to encourage Babel by printing two of his stories in his magazine. During the First World War, Babel fought with the Tsarist army and in 1917 went over to the Bolsheviks. In 1923 he returned to literature with a number of short stories printed in periodicals. An instant literary success, these formed the nucleus of the Odessa Stories , a group of vivid sketches of Russian Jewish life, and the unforgettable Red Cavalry (1926), written out of his experiences with Budyonny’s cavalry in the Polish campaign of 1920. Other stories, scenarios and plays followed. Unable to conform to the demands for political conformism that were being made on him, however, Babel was arrested suddenly in 1939. He died, possibly in 1941. David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov . David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thistle and Heather Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2829
- Title
- The Collected Stories
- Author
- Isaac Babel
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen aand Co LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 381
- Weight
- 1.14 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Collectable; Fiction;
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- First Edition
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