Grammar of love

The stories included in this collection are united by the “main topics” of Bunin's prose - the topics to which the great writer returned throughout his life. The Russian village of the beginning of the twentieth century, with its poverty and hopelessness - and distant, exotic countries burned by the southern sun. The beauty and poetry of nature - and the secret, dark depths of the human mind and heart. And, of course, the topic in which Bunin had no equal in Russian literature and with which his name is associated with many generations of readers: love.

The love of a dramatic, tragic, which is truly for heroes and heroines, truly , "Strong as death."