Category: Short Stories

First love, and other stories

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883; Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 77,233 words

The novel “First Love” was Turgénieff’s favourite work, as he more than once confessed. What the author prized in this purely intimate but beautifully finished story was its fidelity to actuality; that is to say, he prized the personal recollections of early youth. In that res...

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you believe it? all I have to do even now is to shut my eyes, and immediately here stands before me the theatre, the almost empty stage, representing the interior of a forest, a...

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The novel “First Love” was Turgénieff’s favourite work, as he more than once confessed. What the author prized in this purely intimate but beautifully finished story was its fid...