The Village. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

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       Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

      The Village

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664167163

Table of Contents

       AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

       PART ONE

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       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

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       XII

       XIII

       XIV

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       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       XX

       XXI

       XXII

       PART TWO

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       PART THREE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

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      Dear Publisher:—

      You have asked me to furnish you with data concerning my life and literary activities. Permit me to repeat what I have already told my French publishers in answer to a similar request.

      I am a descendant of an ancient noble family which has given to Russia a considerable number of prominent names, both in the field of statesmanship and in the realm of art. In the latter, two poets are especially well-known, Anna Petrovna Bunina and Vasili Zhookovski, one of the shining lights of Russian Literature, the son of Afanasi Bunin and a Turkish captive, Salma.

      All my ancestors had always been connected with the people and with the land; they were landed proprietors. My parents were also land-owners, who possessed estates in Central Asia, in the fertile fringe of the steppes,