Ivan Bunin Books
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Powerful, evocative stories from the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA Penguin ClassicA much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and rank...
Read MoreThe liberation of Tolstoy
"Written in 1937, more than two decades after Leo Tolstoy's death, The Liberation of Tolstoy - equal parts biography, memoir, and literary study - serves as a dialogue between two great writers on...
Read MoreCursed days
On July 30, 1925, Vera Muromtseva-Bunina, the wife of the Russian writer Ivan Bunin (who was soon to win the Nobel Prize for Literature), wrote in her diary: "Ian [her name for her husband] has tor...
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