The Gentleman from San Francisco

Name: The Gentleman from San Francisco
Author: Ivan Bunin

by Ivan Bunin

Novella about a wealthy man's sudden death abroad, revealing life's transience and emptiness

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Ivan Bunin

Russian author and the first Russian Nobel laureate in literature. His elegiac short stories and novellas evoke the declining world of the Russian gentry with lyrical beauty and painterly precision.

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