First love, and other stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"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
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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
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EBook-No. 56878
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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