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The Gentleman from San Francisco, and Other Stories

by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin ...

The title story, "The Gentleman from San Francisco," tells the tale of an unnamed wealthy American businessman who decides to take a two-year vacation with his wife and daughter in Europe and the East. The story begins as the family sets out on a luxurious ocean liner, symbolizing their wealth and status. The Gentleman, who has spent his life accumulating wealth and looking forward to enjoying it ... Read more

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The title story, "The Gentleman from San Francisco," tells the tale of an unnamed wealthy American businessman who decides to take a two-year vacation with his wife and daughter in Europe and the East. The story begins as the family sets out on a luxurious ocean liner, symbolizing their wealth and status. The Gentleman, who has spent his life accumulating wealth and looking forward to enjoying it
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The Village (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Rustic Chronicles of Russian Life

by Ivan Bunin, Everett Ormeray ...

Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...

Ivan Bunin's The Village is a bleak, unsparing portrait of rural Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, centered on the Krasov brothers and the moral, economic, and spiritual disintegration of peasant life. Written in a hard, lucid prose that resists sentimental populism, the novel dismantles idealized visions of the countryside then common in Russian literature. Its realism is severe, ... Read more

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Ivan Bunin's The Village is a bleak, unsparing portrait of rural Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, centered on the Krasov brothers and the moral, economic, and spiritual disintegration of peasant life. Written in a hard, lucid prose that resists sentimental populism, the novel dismantles idealized visions of the countryside then common in Russian literature. Its realism is severe,
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Dark Avenues

by Ivan Bunin ...

Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction ... Read more

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Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction
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The Village (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. Peasant brothers and village life in rural Russia—interwoven relationships, character portraits, and lyrical insight into the human condition

by Ivan Bunin, Mia Morgan, Mia Morgan ...

Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...

The Village (1910) is Bunin's unsparing panorama of provincial Russia, following the peasant brothers Tikhon and Kuzma through labor, drink, violence, and thwarted hope while the 1905 unrest flickers at the margins. In chiselled, economical prose that blends late-Realist precision with Naturalist determinism, Bunin builds an episodic social anatomy; landscapes, luminous yet indifferent, ... Read more

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The Village (1910) is Bunin's unsparing panorama of provincial Russia, following the peasant brothers Tikhon and Kuzma through labor, drink, violence, and thwarted hope while the 1905 unrest flickers at the margins. In chiselled, economical prose that blends late-Realist precision with Naturalist determinism, Bunin builds an episodic social anatomy; landscapes, luminous yet indifferent,
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1910's - The Europeans

The ten best stories written from 1910-1919 by European authors

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Luigi Pirandello, Alexander Kuprin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, I N Potapenko, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Aleister Crowley ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, David Shaw-Parker, Lisa Bowerman ...

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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 ... Read more

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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
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50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol.2

Selections from Irving, Wilde, Chopin, Wells, Chekhov, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and many more

by Washington Irving, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joel Chandler Harris, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, Kate Chopin, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, G. K. Chesterton, Ivan Bunin, Aleksandr Kuprin, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Mikhail Bulgakov, Agatha Christie ...

Narrated by Kenneth Elliot, Peter Coates, David J Miles, Mike Hogan, Michael Goodrick, Mark Bowen, Sharon Plummer, Abigail Reno, John Lingua, Jim Gerard, Carl Hughes, Anthony Bottoms ...

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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.It features classics ... Read more

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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.It features classics
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Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin

by Ivan Bunin ...

Translated by Graham Hettlinger ...

"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger. Together, along with four new pieces, they are now published in a one-volume paperback ... Read more

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"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger. Together, along with four new pieces, they are now published in a one-volume paperback
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Russian Realism

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Vsevolod Garshin, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev0, I N Potapenko1, Vera Jelihovsky2, Mikhail Bulgakov3 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley4, David Shaw-Parker5, Mark Rice-Oxley6 ...

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13 hours 44 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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The Village

by Ivan Bunin ...

Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human” it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.At once nostalgic for a ... Read more

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Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human” it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.At once nostalgic for a
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Cursed Days

Diary of a Revolution

by Ivan Bunin ...

Translated by Thomas Gaiton Marullo ...

The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. -Marc Raeff ... Read more

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The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. -Marc Raeff
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Son. Nobel Prize 1933

by Ivan Bunin, Ivan Bunin ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen ...

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37 min

Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for ... Read more

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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The Russians

by Mikhail Bulgakov, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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