The Essential Fictions
by Isaac Babel · 2017
Buy on AmazonIsaac Babel: The Essential Fictions is a collection of seventy-two of Isaac Babel's finest short stories and includes Red Cavalry, Odessa Stories, and the "Dovecote" cycle. Newly edited, translated, and annotated by Val Vinokur, this collection also features illustrations by Babel's fellow Odessan Yefim Ladyzhensky.
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