Bunin achieved his greatest mastery in the short story, and much of his finest work appears in this volume-the largest collection of his prose works ever published in English.

Contents

• The Grammar of Love
• First Love
• In Paris
• On the Night Sea
• Antonov Apples
• Drydale
• Way Back When
• A Passing
• The Snow Bull
• The Saviour in Desecration
• The Sacrifice
• Transfiguration
• The Gentleman from San Francisco
• The Saints
• Zakhar Vorobyov
• Glory
• Ioann the Weeper
• I'm Saying Nothing
• Noosiform Ears
• The Mad Artist
• Sempiternal Spring
• In a Never-Never Land
• An Unknown Friend
• The Hare
• The Cranes
• The Calf's Head
• The Elephant
• Indulgent Participation
• The Idol
• The Consecration of Love
• Somber Pathways (Linden Lined)
• Sunstroke
• Shere Monday
• The Cold Fall
• Night
• The Case of Cornet Elagin
• Light Breathing
• Aglaia
• Temir-Aksak-Khan