First love, and other stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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"First love, and other stories" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a collection of short fiction first published in 1860. The title novella tells the story of a sixteen-year-old boy's infatuation with a capricious twenty-one-year-old neighbor. Turgenev considered it his most autobiographical work, drawing from a youthful episode involving a young princess who captured his heart. The tale explores the complexities of passion when Vladimir discovers unexpected truths about Zinaida's affections, creating a
narrative that divided critics yet captivated readers, including the Russian emperor himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 |
| Title | First love, and other stories |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Love_(novella) |
| Contents | First love -- A correspondence -- The region of dead calm -- It is enough -- The dog. |
| Credits |
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Russian fiction -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 56878 |
| Release Date | Mar 30, 2018 |
| Last Update | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 950 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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