The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Ivan Bunin is often considered the last of the great Russian masters. Already renowned in Russia before the revolution, he fled the country in 1920 and lived the remainder of his life in France, where he continued to write for thirty years. Bunin made his name as a short-story writer with such masterpieces as "The Gentleman from San Francisco," the title piece in one of his collections and one of the stories in this volume. His last book of stories, "Dark Avenues, " was published in the 1940s. Among his longer works were a...

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,...

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,...

Lazarus and The Gentleman from San Francisco, while fairly typical of Slavic literature, nevertheless contain few of the elements popularly associated with the work of contemporary Russian writers. They have no sex interest, no photographic descriptions of sordid conditions and no lugubrious philosophizing. These stories are not cheerful, yet their sadness is uplifting rather than depressing. They both contain what the Greek called katharsis in their tragedies - that cleansing atmosphere which purges us of every baser feeling as we read them.

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"

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.

V knige sobrany povesti i rasskazy o ljubvi velikih masterov russkoj prozy: A. Pushkina, I. Turgeneva, A. Chehova, A. Kuprina, I. Bunina. Chto takoe ljubov'? Odna iz samyh vysokih cennostej, sila, sozdajushhaja lichnost', sobirajushhaja luchshie kachestva cheloveka v edinoe celoe, nagrada, dazhe esli stradanija soprovozhdajut jeto chuvstvo? Ili rokovaja sila, nedostizhimaja vershina, k kotoroj stremitsja ljuboj chelovek, starajas' obresti edinstvo s drugoj lichnost'ju, neizmenno oborachivajushheesja utratoj, tragediej, razrushajushhej garmoniju mira? Raznye istorii i raznye vzgljady pomogut...

Granatovyj braslet A. I. Kuprina - odna iz luchshih povestej o ljubvi v literature russkoj i, navernoe, mirovoj. Jeto gimn ljubvi zhertvennoj, bezogljadnoj i bezotvetnoj - toj, chto ne nuzhdaetsja v nagrade i vozdajanii, a dovol'stvuetsja odnim svoim sushhestvovaniem. V odnom rjadu s shedevrom Kuprina stojat povesti Mitina ljubov' I. A. Bunina, Dom s mezoninom A. P. Chehova, Asja I. S. Turgeneva i Starosvetskie pomeshhiki N. I. Gogolja, kotorye takzhe vkljucheny v jetot sbornik.