The Village by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
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"The Village" by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is a short novel written in 1909 and first published in 1910. Set during the 1905 Revolution in rural Russia, it follows two peasant brothers—one a brutal drunk, the other more gentle and sympathetic. Bunin's unflinching portrayal of country life sparked immediate controversy by challenging the idealized image of Russian peasants common in literature of the time. Maxim Gorky praised it highly, calling it a work
that would force Russian society to think seriously about the nation's future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 |
| Title | The Village |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(Bunin_novel) |
| Note | Translation of Derevnia. |
| Credits |
Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Russia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Brothers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Peasants -- Russia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 59981 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-59981-6 |
| Release Date | Jul 25, 2019 |
| Last Update | May 25, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 761 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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