The protagonist of this work sits down and repeats the lament "It's terrible!" after struggling mightily to button the top bu
The protagonist of this work sits down and repeats the lament "It's terrible!" after struggling mightily to button the top button of a dress shirt. This work describes churches as "cold, smelling of wax, always alike" and notes that they often contain "somebody's Descent from the Cross, infallibly famous". The main characters of this story occupy rooms recently vacated by a "person of high dignity", Rex XVII, and encounter the "crown prince of an Asiatic state" near Gibraltar. The title character is annoyed by an urchin advertising the "Hotel Kgoyal-al" on his arrival in Sorrento, and is preparing to watch a world-famous tarantella when he collapses and is taken to Room 43, after which his body is taken off of Capri in a soda-water box and returned home on the steamer Atlantis. For 10 points, identify this Ivan Bunin story about the death of a rich Californian.
The protagonist of this work sits down and repeats the lament "It's terrible!"
"The Gentleman from San Francisco" [or "Gospodin iz San Frantsisco"]