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First Love

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

102 pages2007PenguinISBN 9780141032825

About this book

Love can be torture At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests smoke cigars and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida, and the cruelty and betrayal that followed...

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin
Published
2007
Pages
102
ISBN
9780141032825
Language
en-GB

About Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

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