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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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  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • 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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    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 ...

    Unabridged

    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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    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 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    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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  • The Gentleman from San Francisco

    by 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. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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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

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • Short Fiction

    by 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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Select Poems and Folk Songs of Ukraine, Select Works of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, and There's Not A Bathing Suit in Russia

    by Taras Shevchenko & Ivan Alekseevich Bunin & Will Rogers & Humphrey Kowalsky ...
    What “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” did for the negroes of the United States of America the poems of Shevchenko did for the serfs of Russia. They aroused the conscience of the Russian people, and the persecutions suffered by the poet at the hands of the autocracy awakened their sympathy. It was two days after the death of Shevchenko that the czar’s ukase appeared granting freedom to the serfs. Possibly the ... Read more

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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

    $19.99 USD