Introduction ANote on the Translations and Annotations ANote on the Organization of the Collection Acknowledgements IsaacBabel?s Selected Writings UnacknowledgedBeginning OldShloyme ConqueringPetersburg DEBUTIN FICTION ElyaIsaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna Mama,Rimma, and Alla TheBathroom Window MANABOUT TOWN ThePublic Library Nine Odessa Doudu JEWISHFOLKLORE Shabos-Nakhamu ACULTURAL AND SOCIAL CRITIC OF THE REVOLUTION Mosaic AnIncident on the Nevsky Prospekt Atthe Station: A Sketch from Life PETERSBURGTALES AnEvening with the Empress Chink TheSin of Jesus Lineand Color Guyde Maupassant TheRoad The Ivan and Maria Maria: A Play in Eight Scenes ThePolish Campaign: Civil War or World Revolution REDCAVALRY Crossingthe River Zbrucz TheChurch in Novograd ALetter TheReserve Cavalry Commander Pan Apolek ItalianSun Gedali MyFirst Goose TheRabbi TheRoad to Brody The Tachanka Theory Dolgushov?sDeath TheCommander of the Second Brigade SashkaChrist TheLife of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko TheCemetery in Kozin Prishchepa TheStory of a Horse Konkin Berestechko Salt Evening AfonkaBida AtSaint Valentine?s SquadronCommander Trunov Ivanand Ivan TheContinuation of the Story of a Horse TheWidow Zamosc Treason Czesniki Afterthe Battle TheSong TheRabbi?s Son REDCAVALRY: ALTERNATE ENDINGS Argamak TheKiss 1920DIARY REPORTINGFOR THE RED CAVALRYMAN WeNeed More Men Like Trunov TheKnights of Civilization MurderersWho Have Yet to Be Clubbed to Death HerDay TheCaucasus Atthe Workers? Retreat Bagrat-Oglyand the Eyes of His Bull Information TheOdessa Stories TheKing HowThings Were Done in Odessa Lyubkathe Cossack Sunset: A Play in Eight Scenes Karl-Yankel TheEnd of the Almshouse FroimGrach Collectivizationand the Five-Year Plan GapaGuzhva Kolyvushka Petroleum Paris DanteStreet TheTrial AutobiographicalFiction: Childhood AtGrandmother?s TheStory of My Dovecote FirstLove TheAwakening Inthe Basement DiGrasso SelectedLetters of Isaac Babel to His Sister and Mother,1926-1939 IsaacBabel Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries NathalieBabel ? [The Family] M.N. Berkov ? We Knew Each Other since Childhood PyotrPilsky ? [The Young Babel] ElenaPilsky ? [Babel in Odessa, 1919?1920] KonstantinPaustovsky ? Life?s Novel. The Time of GreatExpectations YuriAnnenkov ? Isaac Babel DmitryFurmanov ? Notes from the Diary 1925?1926 SemyonGekht ? By the Walls of the Passion Monastery on a Summer Dayin 1924 KorneiChukovsky ? Diary (1901?1969) TamaraIvanova (Kashirina) ? A Chapter from My Life (Memoirs,Letters of I. Babel) VyacheslavPolonsky ? Diary, 1931?1932 Stalin-KaganovichCorrespondence Gorky?sLetter to Babel about Maria BorisSouvarine ? My Last Conversations with Babel IlyaEhrenburg ? A Book for Adults ?People, Years, Life ClaraMalraux ? The Sound of Our Steps: Suddenly SummerComes ValentinaKhodasevich ? Babel as I Saw Him ?Meetings at A. M. Gorky?s Country House Before and After HisDeath NKVDReports on Babel, 1934?1936 ErwinSinko ? A Novel about a Novel. Moscow Diary NadezhdaMandelstam ? Hope against Hope TatyanaStakh ? [The Search] AntoninaPirozhkova ? At His Side: The Last Years of IsaacBabel Criticism ViktorShklovsky ? Isaac Babel: A Critical Romance SemyonBudyonny ? The Babism of Babel from Red VirginSoil LionelTrilling ? The Forbidden Dialectic EfraimSicher ? Midrash and History: A Key to the BabelesqueImagination GregoryFreidin ? The Other Babel IsaacBabel: A Chronology SelectedBibliography.