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A Cold Autumn (short story)

  • Type: Short Story
  • Length: 6 pages

A Cold Autumn is a notable 20th century short story by Russian author Ivan Bunin. - AsNotedIn

In June of that year he was staying with us on the estate. He'd always been considered one of us, as his late father had been a friend and neighbor of my father's. On the fifteenth of June Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo. On the morning of the sixteenth the newspapers were delivered from the post office.
Ivan Bunin, A Cold Autumn, Translated by David Richards




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  • Afanasy Fet, As he put on his coat in the entrance hall he was still deep in thought, and then with a sweet smile he suddenly recited some lines from Fet:

Places
  • Moscow, Russia In the spring of 1918, by which time my father and mother were both dead, I was living in Moscow, in the cellar of a house belonging to a woman trading on the Smolensk market who regularly mocked me with her "Well, your excellency, how are your circumstan
  • Voronezh Oblast, Russia Father emerged from his study carrying a Moscow evening paper and entered the dining-room, where he, Mama and I were still sitting at the table, and said:

Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1944/05/03 Ivan Bunin Author Ivan Bunin writes "A Cold Autumn" in Grasse, France. Grasse Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
1945/05/18 Ivan Bunin Author "A Cold Autumn" by Ivan Bunin is published in the Russkye Novosty, No 1, Paris.
1946/00/00 "A Cold Autumn" is included in the second edition of Dark Avenues.

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Particulars for A Cold Autumn (short story):
Season Fall, Autumn season between summer and winter comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of September, October and November
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Fine Art Icon a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Culinary Samovar an urn with a spigot at its base used especially in Russia to boil water for tea.
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction

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Original Language: Russian



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