Dark Avenues
Author: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues–translated here for the first time into English in its entirety–took Bunin’s poetic mastery of language to new heights.,,Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centr….Read More
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