First Love FULL Audiobook

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First Love audiobook • Ivan TURGENEV (1818 - 1883), translated by Constance GARNETT (1861 - 1946) • http://free-audio-books.info/romance/... • The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. 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. 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. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. 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. (Summary by Martin Geeson) • Genre(s): Romance, Published 1800 -1900 • Language: English (FULL Audiobook)

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