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The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

David Richards
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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.

007 Introduction
017 The Gentleman from San Francisco
038 The Primer of Love
048 Chang's Dreams
065 Temir-Aksak-Khan
069 Long Ago
077 An Unknown Friend
087 At Sea, At Night
095 Graffiti
101 Mitya's Love
160 Sunstroke
168 Night
180 The Cancasus
185 Late Hour
192 Visiting Cards
199 Zoyka and Valeria
213 The Riverside Tavern
220 A Cold Autumn
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
March 26, 1992
ISBN
0140185526
ISBN 13
9780140185522

The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

David Richards
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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.

007 Introduction
017 The Gentleman from San Francisco
038 The Primer of Love
048 Chang's Dreams
065 Temir-Aksak-Khan
069 Long Ago
077 An Unknown Friend
087 At Sea, At Night
095 Graffiti
101 Mitya's Love
160 Sunstroke
168 Night
180 The Cancasus
185 Late Hour
192 Visiting Cards
199 Zoyka and Valeria
213 The Riverside Tavern
220 A Cold Autumn
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
March 26, 1992
ISBN
0140185526
ISBN 13
9780140185522

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