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Very Good. First English edition. Very good. Name and date inside front panel. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo,
CARMARTHESHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
$34.60
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Hardcover
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17801538582
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Reader copy. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1951 by John Lehmann, London. Lean to spine & page edges little grubby in places otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-4B*
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Very Good + in J Very Good + jacket. 8vo Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 217 pp, Autobiographical Notes; Leo Tolstoy; Chekhov; Chaliapin Gorki; His Imperial Highness; Kuprin; The Semenov and Bunin Families; Ertel; Voloshin; The Third Tolstoy; Six Miniatures; The Nobel Days. Translated by Vera Traill and Robin Chancellor: First English Edition, 1951. "Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as 'Bunin brocade', is considered to be one of the richest in the language." Not Price Clipped. A pair of small thin rubbed spots along spine edge and front panel dj with minor edge wear, and light soiling to white of rear panel of same. Minor edge wear to bottom board edges with lightly age-toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green and Gold decorative paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip and gilt lettering to spine.
Ivan Bunin is one of the most neglected of modern Russian writers, despite the fact that he won a Nobel Prize for Literature (1933). This can partly be attributed to his not writing a massive novel like "War and Peace" or an agonized fiction like "Crime and Punishment." He was a writer who flourished after the so-called "golden age" of the nineteenth century. His chief novels "The Village" and "The Life of Arseniev today are forgotten--even hard to find! He wrote about the passing of the old order in Russia, the patriarchel world, that ended with the Revolution of 1917. Yet he is a classic, something granted by most critics, though his oeuvre is not great. One of the many emigres from revolutionary Russia, he lived in the south of France since 1920, where he carried on his writing, aided by his wife Vera, and encouraged by other emigres. "Memories and Portraits" was issued in 1951, two years before his death. It is a colorful reminiscence of his past friendships, with Chekhov, Tolstoy, Gorki, even the renowned opera singer Chaliapin--among others. These are all personal recollections, full of anecdotes of the Russian literary and artistic world and cover fifty years. Not a few of these stories are gossipy and amusing. Well worth reading.
