Red Cavalry and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

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Red Cavalry and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Isaac Babel
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Excellent book
  This book is not to be read at one sitting, but many of these stories are powerful, well written and cause you to think. In today's world of politically correct stories with boring characters, this is a welcome change.

• Amazing Russian Modernist Writer
  This is a wonderful collection of Isaac Babel's stories. His writing is terse, image laden and thoroughly engaging. Recounting his experiences with Cossack cavalry in Poland, Babel's tales offer a unique and firsthand perspective into these Russian campaigns.
  Babel's style and his short stories (many times as short as half a page) ask to be read with a level of engagement that many are incapable of. Luckily the stories are both easy and enjoyable to re-read and offer much to be considered and mulled... more info

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