First love, and other stories
- Authors
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
- Tags
- russian -- translations into english , ivan sergeevich , short stories , romance , classics , turgenev , 1818-1883 -- translations into english , russian fiction -- translations into english , russia -- social life and customs -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9780192836892
- Date
- 1881-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.41 MB
- Lang
- en
With the exception of The Song of Triumphant Love , which is set in Renaissance Italy, these stories are all partly autobiographical. They demonstrate the evolution of Turgenev's skills and preoccupations, from the diary form of his famout study of Superfluous Man (1850) and his exposure of the tyranny of serfdom in the small masterpiece Mumu (1854), to his most poignant and nostalgic evocations of love, Asya (1858) and First Love (1860).