The Gentleman from San Francisco

A treasure trove of Russian classics on Storytel! “Mr. from San Francisco.” A parable novel by the Russian writer, poet, and translator Ivan Bunin, the first Russian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. An American businessman, for the first time in many years, travels to take a break, embarking with his family on a European cruise. He enjoys the same old privileges that money and status provide, not noticing the fleetingness and beauty of life—until misfortune happens to him personally, and then not even all the money in the world can help… The novella is on the reading list for grades 10–11.

Age limit: 12+