First Love and Other Stories

by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator)

Overview

Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420964837
Publisher:	Digireads.com
Publication date:	11/09/2019
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the Province of Orel, and suffered during his childhood from a tyrannical mother. After the family had moved to Moscow in 1827 he entered Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and, convinced that Europe contained the source of real knowledge, went to the University of Berlin. After two years he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. In 1843 he fell in love with Pauline Garcia-Viardot, a young Spanish singer, who influenced the rest of his life; he followed her on her singing tours in Europe and spent long periods in the French house of herself and her husband, both of whom accepted him as a family friend. He sent his daughter by a sempstress to be brought up among the Viardot children. After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe; he was a well-known figure in Parisian literary circles, where his friends included Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers, and an honorary degree was conferred on him at Oxford. His series of six novels reflect a period of Russian life from 1830s to the 1870s: they are Rudin (1855), A House of Gentlefolk (1858), On the Eve (1859; a Penguin Classic), Fathers and Sons (1861), Smoke (1867) and Virgin Soil (1876). He also wrote plays, which include the comedy A Month in the Country; short stories and Sketches from a Hunter’s Album (a Penguin Classic); and literary essays and memoirs. He died in Paris in 1883 after being ill for a year, and was buried in Russia.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7
THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN	27
MUMU	73
ASYA	100
FIRST LOVE	144
KING LEAR OF THE STEPPES	203
THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE	274
Notes	295

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent selection of short stories by Turgenev....Accurate and readable."—Leo Hecht, George Mason University

"A fine selection of stories, well translated and representative of Turgenev's shorter works."—Anne Netick, College of William and Mary

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