The Gentleman from San Francisco

Name: The Gentleman from San Francisco
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ISBN: 9780140185522

And Other Stories

David Richards, Ivan Bunin, Sophie Lund

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Russian

Penguin Classics
26 March 1992

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Bunin is one of the most brilliant Russian writers of the early 20th century

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.

By: David Richards, Ivan Bunin, Sophie Lund
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780140185522
ISBN 10: 0140185526
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 26 March 1992
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as ""Bunin brocade"", is one of the richest in the language. His last book of fiction, The Dark Avenues (1943), is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia.