Ivan Turgenev 
First Love [EPUB ebook] 

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First published in 1860, ‘First Love’ is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. It is one of his most popular works of short fiction. Some criticized its light subject matter that did not touch upon any of the pressing social and political issues of the day. But it had its many admirers, including the French novelist Gustave Flaubert, who gushed in a letter to Turgenev, ‘What an exciting girl that Zinochka [Zinaida] is!’ 

It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. Like many of Turgenev’s works, this one is highly autobiographical. Indeed, the author claimed it was the most autobiographical of all his works. Here Turgenev is retelling an incident from his own life, his infatuation with a young neighbor in the country, Catherine Shakovskoy (the Zinaida of the novella), an infatuation that lasted until his discovery that Catherine was in fact his own father’s mistress.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 128 ● ISBN 9789391181727 ● File size 0.6 MB ● Publisher GENERAL PRESS ● Published 2021 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7953725 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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