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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 centres around dark, erotic liaisons told with a rich, elegaic poetics which probes the artistic lim...

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Ivan Bunin

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Bryan Karetnyk

All of a sudden I felt this Russia, I felt her past and present, her wild, frightening, and yet somehow captivating qualities, and of course my own blood kinship with her…Born amid the abject impoverishment of the gentry, ‘inconceivable to any European’, among the vast fields and wild skies of 1870s Russia, Alexei Arseniev dreams of beauty. He finds it in the sublime cycle of the seasons, the charisma of his father and the piety of his mother, and above all in literature. ...

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Ivan Bunin

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 punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary.Reading Bunin's stories is on...

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Ivan Bunin, Mia Morgan, Mia Morgan

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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, counterpoint the villagers' brutality and endurance. Born in 1870 to an impoverished Oryol gentry family...

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Ivan Bunin

"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 collection of Bunin's greatest writings. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin ...

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Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Alexsandr Pushkin, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

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Peter Coates, Michael Goodrick, Mark Bowen, Sharon Plummer, Trevor O'Hare, Belinda Hillman, Mike Hogan, Joe Phoenix, Richard Williams, Judy Kriz, Jason Dettrey, British Voice, Anthony Bottoms

Translated by

S.E. Torrens, Aylmer Maude, Constance Garnett, William Henry Lowe

The best collection of Russian short stories includes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground The Dream of a Ridiculous Man The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich Kholstomer, the Story of a Horse Alyosha the Pot A Letter to a Hindu A Confession God Sees the Truth, but Waits A Russian Christmas Party Anton Chekhov: Kashtanka Gusev The Darling The Lady with the Dog A Slander The Horse-Stealers The Petchenyeg A Dead Body A Happy Ending The Looki...

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Ivan Bunin, Everett Ormeray

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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, almost documentary, yet charged with symbolic force, placing it in dialogue with Tolstoyan social c...

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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

The Gentleman from San Francisco (Господин из Сан-Франциско, Gospodin iz San Frantsisco) is a short story by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin. Translated into English by D.H.Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky), the story is one of Bunin's best known and regarded as classic. (Wikipedia) This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

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Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin was a Russian author, poet and diarist, who in 1933 (at the age of 63) won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Viewed by many at the time as the heir to his friend and contemporary Chekhov, Bunin wrote his poems and stories with a depth of description that attracted the admiration of his fellow authors. Maxim Gorky described him as "the best Russian writer of the day" and "the fir...

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Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

The Village is a short novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in 1909 and first published in 1910. The Village caused much controversy at the time, though it was highly praised by Maxim Gorky (who from then on regarded the author as the major figure in Russian literature), among others, and is now generally regarded as Bunin's first masterpiece. Composed of brief episodes set in its author's birthplace at the time of the 1905 Revolution, it tells the story of t...

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Ivan Bunin

The Gentleman from San Francisco tells the story of a young man who moves to San Francisco in the hope of finding adventure and wealth. However, he quickly becomes disillusioned with the city and its people. The story is full of intricate details and symbolism that help to create a rich and complex portrait of the city.

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Ivan Bunin

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