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The Gentleman from San Francisco and other stories (edition 1922)

by I. A. Bunin, D. H. Lawrence (Translator), S. S. Kotelainsky (Translator), Leonard Woolf (Translator)

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Powerful, evocative stories from the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia of his youth, in the countries that he visited and in France, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. In the title story, a family's tour of fashionable European resorts comes to an unexpected end; "Late Hour" describes an old man's return to the little Russian town in the steppes that he has not seen since his early youth; "Mitya's Love" explores the darker emotional reverberations of sexual experience. Throughout his stories, there is a sense of the precariousness of existence, an omnipresent awareness of the impermanence of human aspirations and achievements. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.… (more)
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Title:The Gentleman from San Francisco and other stories
Authors:I. A. Bunin
Other authors:D. H. Lawrence (Translator), S. S. Kotelainsky (Translator), Leonard Woolf (Translator)
Info:Leonard & Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press, Paradise Road, Richmond
Collections:Fiction
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The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories by Ivan Aleksejevitsj Bunin

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Sort of Guy Maupassant meets Ivan Turgenev. This collection of stories from Ivan Bunin includes his best known work 'The Gentleman from San Francisco'. The book includes about 15 short stories. Some of the stories are of the older style, like Turgenev and other Russian prose writers talking about riding carriages across versts of road stopping to change horses and arriving at country estates to hunt and bring out the samovar if you know what I mean. Many others show the more contemporary aspect of Bunin (relatively speaking, he was born in the 19th century) such as steamer ships, corsets, modern travel, and more. His writing style never lagged, it kept good pace, and easily switched from character motivation to plot facts to dialogue. I would recommend this for fans of Bulgakov or Murakami. ( )
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Powerful, evocative stories from the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia of his youth, in the countries that he visited and in France, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. In the title story, a family's tour of fashionable European resorts comes to an unexpected end; "Late Hour" describes an old man's return to the little Russian town in the steppes that he has not seen since his early youth; "Mitya's Love" explores the darker emotional reverberations of sexual experience. Throughout his stories, there is a sense of the precariousness of existence, an omnipresent awareness of the impermanence of human aspirations and achievements. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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