Audiobooks by Isaac Babel

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories About - Identity02 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson03 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel04 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry"

Isaac Babel, O Henry, Sherwood Anderson (Author), Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker (Narrator)

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The Jewish Author - A Short Story Collection

"We love to stereotype, to typecast and to pigeon hole. It’s one of our organising traits that serves many uses but also serves to stain and segregate, to find fault and to point out blame.In this volume we see if that servant can have two masters and two functions.The Jewish culture has been a mesmerizing source of life, art, tragedy, and beauty for millennia.To be Jewish is not a simple example of one person or one family; it is a collective form of identity. Jewish history has often been rightfully portrayed as turbulent, as a people being unfairly oppressed and downtrodden; marked out for discrimination and even death. But Jewish history also has darker notes against others when in its own ascendancy. Within this volume of short stories we have exampled people who thought of themselves as Jewish and wove that together with their literary skills to create some quite dazzling and unexpected works. These short stories explore and examine society and the lives all around them in times when the Jewish authors themselves were being closely watched. 1 - The Jewish Author - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka3 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein4 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel5 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine6 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy7 - Jezebel of Valley Farm by E Philips Oppenhein8 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill9 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening10 - Chopin Op 47 by Stanley Victor Makower11 - August by Bruno Schulz12 - The Book Binder of Hort by Leoplod von Sacher-Masoch"

Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Isaac Babel (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1920's - The Europeans

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this decade Europe is recovering from the Great War yet already the poisonous seeds for the next, even greater calamity, are taking root. Our literary leviathans bring tales of pain and heartache, sorrow and humanity into every narrative. Genius has many names. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The Europeans - An Introduction 2 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 3 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 4 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 5 - Twilight Alley by Stefan Zweig 6 - The Tale Of The Stairs by Hristo Smirenski 7 - The Imbecile by Luigi Pirandello 8 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel 9 - The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan 10 - Vampire's Prey by Hanns Heinz Ewers 11 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards"

D.H. Lawrence, Dorothy Edwards, Franz Kafka, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hristo Smirenski, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Luigi Pirandello, Mikhail Bulgakov, Stefan Zweig (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The Russians

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume we examine Russians authors of the 20th Century. Whether it is under the despotic boot of Czars or the authoritarian boot of Communism, the imagination and ideas of such authors as Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxin Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov cut through with razor sharp prose that adds genius to each and every name. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The Russians - An Introduction 2 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy 3 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 4 - Kasimir Stanislavovitch by Ivan Bunin 5 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky 6 - Anathema by Alexander Kuprin 7 - The Marseillaise by Leonid Andreyev 8 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov 9 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov 10 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 11 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel"

Alexander Kuprin, Isaac Babel, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Nikolai Teleshov, Valery Bryusov (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - War

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our authors take on War, the destroyer of humanity. Our literary masters bring the true scale of the horror in sometimes tiny fragments of peoples lives to reveal its true and deep-felt effects.01 - The Top 10 - War - An Introduction02 - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant03 - War by Luigi Pirandello04 - The Locket by Kate Chopin05 - Three Wars by Emile Zola06 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier07 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce08 - The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet09 - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen10 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel11 - The German Spy by William Hope Hodgson"

Alphonse Daudet, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Emile Zola, Guy De Maupassant, Isaac Babel, Kate Chopin, Luigi Pirandello, Stacy Aumonier, William Hope Hodgson (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Short Stories About War

"Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right. As blood and limb are sacrificed the true cost is seen but often set to one side as the dispute becomes embedded in emotions and reason falls away. In this volume our classic authors including Victor Hugo, Thomas Wolfe, Ambrose Bierce, Ford Madox Ford and many others explore the many facets of this problem and its human dimensions. 1 - Short Stories About War - An Introduction2 - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne3 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo4 - A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce5 - Pink Flannel by Ford Maddox Ford6 - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant7 - War by Luigi Pirandello8 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield9 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose_Bierce10 - The Devil Light by Edgar Wallace11 - The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet12 - Red Tape by May Sinclair13 - A Cullenden of Virginia by Thomas Wolfe14 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev15 - Spud Trevor of the Red Hussars by Sapper16 - Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce17 - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen18 - Wodjabet by C E Montague19 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby20 - The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan21 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson22 - The German Spy by William Hope Hodgson23 - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy24 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel25 - The Locket by Kate Chopin26 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier27 - The Story of a Conscience by Ambrose Bierce"

Ambrose Bierce, Ford Maddox Ford, Guy De Maupassant, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Luigi Pirandello, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stacy Aumonier, Victor Hugo, Winifred Holtby (Author), Eric Meyers, Richard Mitchley, Vincent Marzello (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Isaac Babel

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