Ebook {Epub PDF} First Love by Ivan Turgenev

IVAN TURGENEV was born Octo, the son of a chronically philandering cavalry officer and an unhappy, abusive heiress. As a child, one of the family serfs read him verses from the Rossiad of Kheraskov, and Turgenev’s early attempts at literature and poetry gave indications of www.doorway.ruev made a name for himself, beginning in , with the short-story collection A Sportsman’s. FIRST LOVE (Pervaia liubov')by Ivan Turgenev, The seemingly ingenuous title of Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love (Pervaia liubov) is actually ironic. It implies that the principal narrator, Volodia, has gone on to experience other loves, although he apparently has not, and his elegiac tone at both the beginning and the end of the story further implies that his early love was unique. First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) · Rating details · 1, ratings · 80 reviews This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects.

From the Reviews: "Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written. It is a gesture of artistic defiance to the urgencies of the age -- which demanded of an artist as Russian as Turgenev to "lift the nation" -- yet it remains an authentic attendance to those urgencies: the old order versus the new" - Hisham Matar, The Guardian. This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changi. Turgenev uses this novella to tell readers his feelings about love in general, but especially first love and love at first sight. He treats the subject of love with somewhat of a condescending manner.

First Love (Russian: Первая любовь, Pervaya lyubov) is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the love story between a year-old girl and a year-old boy. by Ivan S. Turgenev. First Love () is Turgenev's most autobiographical story, based on his own boyhood infatuation with an older young woman, his country neighbor, Catherine Shakovskoy (Zinaida character), and later discovery that she was his father's mistress. Retrieved from his collection, The Torrents of Spring (), translated by Constance Garnett. Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, Translator: Hapgood, Isabel Florence, Title: First love, and other stories Contents: First love -- A correspondence -- The region of dead calm -- It is enough -- The dog. Language: English: LoC Class: PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature: Subject.