Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (January 1934) [includes "A Simple Peasant" by Bunin]

New York: Story Magazine, Inc.. Very Good. 1934. (Vol. IV; whole No. 18). Magazine. [a good sound copy, modest external wear and light soiling to covers; binding fully intact] Contains the following stories: "Actual Riot Scenes" (H.M. LeTissier); "Accommodation Ladder" (Hedy Verena Gossman); "A Boxer: Old" (Harry Sylvester); "Love Comes Softly" (Robert Henderson); "The Deacon" (Emmett Gowen); "The Escape" (Jean Temple); "Nazi Nights' Entertainment" (Lawrence Gilbert and Charles E. Hewitt, Jr.); "First Night, Last Night" (Eleanor Saltzman); "A Simple Peasant" (Bunin). The magazine's "Notes" section includes quite a bit of information about Bunin, who had just been awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Quite interesting is the "Nazi Nights' Entertainment" story. Written in a kind of faux-Ring Lardner/Damon Runyon idiom, its American narrator tells about running into a Brown Shirt acquaintance in Berlin one night and accompanying him to a beer-hall gathering of similiar types, where there ensues (amidst the general revelry) a discussion about various topics related to the "New Germany," including the concentration camps, "where the Brownies put away all the Reds and the Jews and their business rivals and all the other mugs they don't want to have around." For a little context, Hitler and the Nazis had only been in power for one year at the time.) .