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Word: bunin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bargain | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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