The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other StoriesPenguin, 01.09.1992 - 224 Seiten Powerful, evocative stories from the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic 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 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, 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; "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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Inhalt
The Gentleman from San Francisco | 17 |
The Primer of Love | 38 |
Changs Dreams | 48 |
TemirAksakKhan | 65 |
Long Ago | 69 |
An Unknown Friend | 77 |
At Sea At Night | 87 |
Graffiti | 95 |
Sunstroke | 160 |
Night | 168 |
The Caucasus | 180 |
Late Hour | 185 |
Visiting Cards | 192 |
Zoyka and Valeria | 199 |
The Riverside Tavern | 213 |
A Cold Autumn | 220 |
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The Gentleman from San Francisco: And Other Stories David Richards,Ivan Bunin,Sophie Lund Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1992 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
already Alyonka asked avenue bailiff beautiful began beneath blue Bunin Capri Captain Chang clouds cold corridor Crimea dacha dark David Richards deck dining-room door dream dress droshky everything eyes face feeling felt Fenya filled forest garden gaze Gelendzhik gentleman from San girl glanced grey hair hand happy head heart Ivan Bunin Ivan Ivanych Ivlev Katya kissed Levitsky light live looked maître d'hôtel Mama Mitya Mitya's Love Mogilyov morning Moscow never night once Oryol pale prince rain rapture round Russian samovar San Francisco scent seemed ship side silent sitting sleep smell smile smoke somehow someone Sonka Sophie Lund soul spring stood street suddenly summer sweet tarantass Temir-Aksak-Khan there's thing thought town trees turned veranda vodka voice Volga walked whole window woman young Zoyka
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