The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories - Bunin, Ivan A
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A middle-aged American millionaire from San Francisco takes his wife and daughter on a long vacation. They travel around the world, eventually coming to Naples. Disheartened by inclement weather and the decrepit state of the city, they decide to travel to the beautiful island of Capri-where he dies, and a different story emerges. The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin's short fiction translated by both Leonard Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, with the help of Samuil Koteliansky.

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Produktbeschreibung
A middle-aged American millionaire from San Francisco takes his wife and daughter on a long vacation. They travel around the world, eventually coming to Naples. Disheartened by inclement weather and the decrepit state of the city, they decide to travel to the beautiful island of Capri-where he dies, and a different story emerges. The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin's short fiction translated by both Leonard Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, with the help of Samuil Koteliansky.
Autorenporträt
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was a Russian author. His poems, novels, and short stories are recognized for their continuation of the realist tradition in Russian literature as well as for their stylistic intricacy. Born in Voronezh to a family of wealthy landowners, Bunin was encouraged in his intellectual and literary interests from a young age. By the late 1870s, however, his father's gambling addiction plunged the family into poverty. Unable to afford private tutors, Bunin was forced to attend public school for several years before failing to complete his courses. He moved to Kharkov for work in 1889 and published his first collection of poetry in 1891, after which he began publishing essays, articles, short stories, and poems regularly in Saint Petersburg periodicals. In 1894, he travelled across Ukraine before returning to Russia and visiting Moscow for the first time, where he met Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, among others, and began to move in some of Russia's most prestigious intellectual and literary circles. He published extensively throughout his lifetime, was awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1903 and 1909, and became the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.