These stories all display the elegance and clarity of Turgenev's finest writing.(Publisher). 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 as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. of Vladimir Petrovichs parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbours daughter, Zinaida. An admittedly worn but still quite handsome limited edition of this collection of stories by Ivan Turgenev. Foxing to endpapers, and occasional faint foxing to pages throughout, otherwise pages are free of marks and notation. Discoloration to edges of silk moire endpapers. Rubbing, dust-spotting, and heavy foxing to all-gilt edges of text block. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Bound in full red leather over boards, with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol.Turgenev, Ivan Magarshack, David (Trans.) Isom, Joseph (Illust.) First Love and Other Tales LIMITED EDITIONįranklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1978. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise.
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. Translated by Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946) Ivan Turgenev’s First Love opens with a brief scene in which three apparently prosperous Russian gentlemen of the 1850’s propose to amuse themselves by recounting the stories of their first loves. Download cover art Download CD case insert First Love
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