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I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gentleman from San Francisco' I thought very crude indeed, and I could not get on with 'The Village'.
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37 [...] 6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations. R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy