The Gentleman from San Francisco(1915)

Short stories

A wealthy gentleman from San Francisco sets off with his wife and daughter on a luxury liner on a round-the-world voyage. However, he has no idea that this is his last trip…

After Bunin's emigration to France in 1920, his story was translated into all major European languages. Western critics placed it on par with Tolstoy's work and called it "an example of the Russian symbolic short story".

Translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, Publisher Knopf, 1927