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Short Fiction
Chapters (19)
- Foreword 0:00
- Figures 1:11
- Death 21:12
- A Goodly Life 44:31
- A Night Conversation 1:59:29
- Elijah, the Prophet 3:06:32
- “I Say Nothing” 3:17:16
- An Evening in Spring 3:55:53
- Brethren 4:29:12
- The Grammar of Love 5:49:48
- The Gentleman from San Francisco 6:16:36
- Son 7:17:33
- Gentle Breathing 7:50:21
- Aglaia 8:05:46
- The Dreams of Chang 8:33:37
- A Compatriot 9:22:57
- Kasimir Stanislavovitch 9:45:43
- Gautami 10:08:26
- An Unknown Friend 10:17:03
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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 fellow authors. Maxim Gorky described him as “the best Russian writer of the day” and “the first poet of our times,” and his translators include D. H. Lawrence and Leonard Woolf.
This collection includes the famous The Gentleman from San Francisco, partially set on Capri where Bunin spent several winters, and stories told from the point of view of many more characters, including historic Indian princes, emancipated Russian serfs, desert prophets, and even a sea-faring dog. The short stories collected here are all of the available public domain translations into English, in chronological order of the original Russian publication. They were translated by S. S. Koteliansky, D. H. Lawrence, Leonard Woolf, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, and The Russian Review.