Excerpt from Mitya's LoveHe was actually twenty-one when his first book - a volume of verse - was pub lished at Orel, the capital of his native province and the birthplace Of Turgenev. Twelve years later, in 1903, Bunin was awarded the Pushkin Prize for literature, and had taken his place in the front rank of Chekhov's successors. After the death of Chekhov, in 1904, and the Revolution of 1905, Vladimir Korolenko survived as the representative of the older school of romantic fiction, but he had no followers of importance. The leadership of the new school of Realism fell to Maxim Gorky, about whom were grouped the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.