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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.
