Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
"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. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.
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Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
"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. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.
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"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. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.

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ISBN-13: 9781566637589
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/19/2007
Pages: 398
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Ivan Bunin won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. After the Russian Revolution, he spent his remaining years in exile in France. Graham Hettlinger lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

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"[Bunin is] one of the great literary masters of the twentieth century...[his is a] powerful and pellucid art."

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"Ivan Bunin...is one of the finest story writers of the twentieth century, a master of tone and experiment."

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