Dark alleys. Stories and poems

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953)-writer, poet, honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate (1933)
Bunin early life began to independent life: in the youth years he worked in newspapers, offices, wandered a lot . Since 1920 he lived in France.
"I have been looking for a combination of beautiful and eternal in this world, ”Bunin wrote. His first poetic collection was published in 1891. Later the collection of Listopad, along with the translation of the "Songs of Gayavat", was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1903) and gained the glory of the poet of the Russian landscape. As a prose writer took place in 1893, when his story “Village Sketch” was printed in the St. Petersburg magazine “Russian wealth”, which later called “Tanka ". After acquaintance with the manuscript, the editor of the magazine wrote to a twenty -year -old author that over time a big writer would come out of him ... Prose I.A. Bunina is unusually picturesque, colorful, deep.
Bunin wrote: "There is no separate nature from us, <...> Each movement of air is the movement of our own life" ...
The book includes I.A."s stories and poems Bunin studied at school