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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1974
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • 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....




  • A group of stories by Isaac Babel, in which he seeks to balance the image of Jewish violence against the violence done to Jews who are so Jewish that they cannot help but be nonviolent. The collection includes the tales Benya Krik and The Gangster....



  • The Russian writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940) is acknowledged to be one of the great masters of 20th century literature, hailed as a genius by such critics as Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe. The work for which he is best known is a cycle of stories cal...



  • Language - English

    "A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times

    Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wid...



  • "A book that will last, that you will reread all your life and then pass on to your grandchildren. Or ask to be buried with."―Michael Dirda, Washington Post

    Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in ...



  • The Lonely Years, a collection of private correspondence, is essential to an understanding of Isaac Babel's life and works. Babel rose to fame in 1920s Russia for such books as Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories. But as Stalin's regime grew repressive, h...



  • 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 S...



  • This Norton Critical Edition is based on Peter Constantine’s incomparable translations, which are introduced and annotated by the renowned Babel scholar Gregory Freidin.

    Isaac Babel’s work has left an indelible mark on modern literature. T...






  • The Odessa Tales is a collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution. Published individually in magazines throughout 1923 and 1924 and collected into a book in 1931, th...



  • 'Everyone makes mistakes, even God.'

    In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the g...



  • The 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 Red Cavalry series and his Odessa Stories, is t...



  • 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 lyrica...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Isaac Babel has published 13 books.

Isaac Babel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Of Sunshine and Bedbugs, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Isaac Babel, Collected Stories, was published in March 1974.

No. Isaac Babel does not write books in series.