The Village (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivan Bunin
- First Published: 1910
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Tikhon Ilitch Krasoff, Kuzma Ilitch Krasoff, The Bride, Rodka
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Villages, Poetry or poets, Brothers, Adultery, Ambition, Cruelty, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: Russia
The Story:
The ancestors of Tikhon and Kuzma Ilitch Krasoff were nothing to be proud of: Their great-grandfather had been hunted from Durnovka with wolfhounds; their grandfather had distinguished himself by becoming a thief; and their father, a petty huckster, had died early in life as a result of overdrinking. The sons, after serving for a time as clerks in town stores, took to the road as itinerant peddlers. After they had traveled together for many years, the partnership was mutually dissolved during an argument over the division of profits. The two parted very...
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