The Village
$28.13
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2012
Summary
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The Village, Ivan Bunin’s first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human. A triumph of bitter realism, Bunin’s cruel, lyrical prose reveals the pettiness, violence and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847492838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847492835 |
| Author: | Ivan Bunin, Hugh Aplin, Gayla Aplin |
| Publisher: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Alma Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 16mm |
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Like Chekhov, Bunin matches the most elegant, economical prose to the coarsest and most profligate characters. * TLS *I do not know any other writer whose external world is so closely tied to another, whose sensations are more exact and indispensable, and whose world is more genuine and also more unexpected. – André Gide
About The Author
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last book of fiction, Dark Avenues, is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia.
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