Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

Name: Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780140185522

ISBN-10: 0140185526

ISBN-13: 9780140185522

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, David Richards, Sophie Lund, Ivan Bunin, Sophie Lund

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Introduction


The Gentleman from San Francisco


The Primer of Love


Chang's Dreams


Temir-Aksak-Khan


Long Ago


An Unknown Friend


At Sea, at Night


Graffiti


Mitya's Love


Sunstroke


Night


The Caucasus


Late Hour


Visiting Cards


Zoyka and Valeria


The Riverside Tavern


A Cold Autumn