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The Gentleman from San Francisco

And Other Stories

By: David Richards,Ivan Bunin,Sophie Lund

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The Gentleman from San Francisco

And Other Stories

By: David Richards,Ivan Bunin,Sophie Lund

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 powerful, evocative 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, for example, 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; while '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.

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Penguin UK

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ISBN 10

0141965401

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9780141965406

Cursed Days

Diary of a Revolution

By: Ivan Bunin

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Cursed Days

Diary of a Revolution

By: 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

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302

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Ivan R. Dee

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1461730309

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9781461730309

The Life of Arseniev

Youth

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin,Gleb Struve

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The Life of Arseniev

Youth

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin,Gleb Struve

Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his émigré period. In ways similar to Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Bunin's novel powerfully evokes the atmosphere of Russia in the decades before the Revolution and illuminates those Russian literary and cultural traditions eradicated in the Soviet era. This first full English-language edition updates earlier translations, taking as its source the version Bunin revised in 1952, and including an introduction and annotations by Andrew Baruch Wachtel.

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272

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Northwestern University Press

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081011187X

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9780810111875

Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin

By: Ivan Bunin

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Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin

By: 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 was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.

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398

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1493082086

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9781493082087

Nature's Embrace

The Poetry of Ivan Bunin

By: Ivan Bunin

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Nature's Embrace

The Poetry of Ivan Bunin

By: Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. For his poetry, he was twice awarded Russia’s highest literary honor, the Pushkin Prize. While Bunin’s prose writing is well known, his poetry—though highly praised by critics and contemporaries such as Blok, Gorky and Nabokov—has been unjustly ignored. This collection of over 100 verse translations is the first English language book of Bunin’s poetry. Spanning a long period of poetic output (1886-1952), this selection includes both published and unpublished poems. In a variety of forms, they cover an astonishing range of topics and reveal a writer with singular artistic precision and deep humanity.

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125

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Patrick Wang

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ISBN 10

1735686549

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9781735686547

Night of Denial

Stories and Novellas

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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Night of Denial

Stories and Novellas

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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731

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Northwestern University Press

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ISBN 10

0810114038

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9780810114036

Recollections

By: Ivan Bunin

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Recollections

By: Ivan Bunin

In this edited translation of famed writer Ivan Bunin's Recollections translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo provides an intimate look at leading political, social, cultural, and literary figures from late imperial Russia, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 to the birth of the Russian diaspora and the rise of the Soviet state. Through engaging, colorful, and often idiosyncratic vignettes, Bunin (1870–1953) details his admiration for Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Fyodor Chaliapin. He shares his love-hate relationships with Maxim Gorky, Alexei Tolstoy, and Alexander Kuprin. In addition, Marullo's translation reveals Bunin's hatred of avant-gardists, particularly Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as his thoughts and experiences on war, revolution, and exile. Bunin's work led, in the end, to his bittersweet reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) in Stockholm, making him the first Russian and the first writer in exile ever to receive this award. Recollections reveals the author's feelings toward this unprecedented event. Bunin's Recollections stands not only as a stark summa of his passage through literature and life but also as an equally bold apologia as to his place in both.

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170

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Cornell University Press

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1501776150

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9781501776151

The Liberation of Tolstoy

A Tale of Two Writers

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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The Liberation of Tolstoy

A Tale of Two Writers

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

This work, equal parts biography, memoir, and literary study, examines the dialogue of two great Russian writers. The dialogue between them includes passages from Tolstoy's personal, political, and literary writings and references to Western and Eastern philosophers, religious thinkers and critics.

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410

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117525

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9780810117525

Autographs Don't Burn

Letters to the Bunins, Part 1

By: Vera Tsareva-Brauner

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Autographs Don't Burn

Letters to the Bunins, Part 1

By: Vera Tsareva-Brauner

Three handwritten lines found inside a 1925 first edition of Ivan Bunin's Mitya's Love led to a cache of letters, published here for the first time, written to Bunin and his wife Vera by two Russian emigres forgotten by history. The book presents history in its purest form as narrated by witnesses who lived through Russia's most tragic century.

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200

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1644694328

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9781644694329

About Chekhov

The Unfinished Symphony

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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About Chekhov

The Unfinished Symphony

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

Seven years after the death of Anton Chekhov, his sister, Maria, wrote to a friend, "You asked for someone who could write a biography of my deceased brother. If you recall, I recommended Iv. Al. Bunin . . . . No one writes better than he; he knew and understood my deceased brother very well; he can go about the endeavor objectively. . . . I repeat, I would very much like this biography to correspond to reality and that it be written by I.A. Bunin." In About Chekhov Ivan Bunin sought to free the writer from limiting political, social, and aesthetic assessments of his life and work, and to present both in a more genuine, insightful, and personal way. Editor and translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo subtitles About Chekhov "The Unfinished Symphony," because although Bunin did not complete the work before his death in 1953, he nonetheless fashioned his memoir as a moving orchestral work on the writers' existence and art. . . . "Even in its unfinished state, About Chekhov stands not only as a stirring testament of one writer's respect and affection for another, but also as a living memorial to two highly creative artists." Bunin draws on his intimate knowledge of Chekhov to depict the writer at work, in love, and in relation with such writers as Tolstoy and Gorky. Through anecdotes and observations, spirited exchanges and reflections, this memoir draws a unique portrait that plumbs the depths and complexities of two of Russia's greatest writers.

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231

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Northwestern University Press

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0810123886

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9780810123885

Village

By: Ivan Bunin

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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 - "e;characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human"e; - it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language.

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177

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Alma Books

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0714545724

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9780714545721

Recollections

By: Ivan Bunin

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By: Ivan Bunin

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The Liberation of Tolstoy

A Tale of Two Writers

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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A Tale of Two Writers

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Village

By: Ivan Bunin

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About Chekhov

The Unfinished Symphony

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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The Unfinished Symphony

By: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

By: Ivan Bunin

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The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

By: Ivan Bunin

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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