Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953 was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature 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. Best known for his short novels The Village and Dry Valley , his autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev , the book of short stories Dark Avenues and his 1917–1918 diary , Bunin was a much revered figure among anti-communist White emigres, European critics, and many of his fellow writers, who viewed him as a true heir to the tradition of realism in Russian literature established by Tolstoy and Chekhov. Ivan Bunin was born on his parental estate in Voronezh province in Central Russia, the third and youngest son of Aleksei Nikolaevich Bunin and Liudmila Aleksandrovna Bunina .
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