First Love

· Author's Republic · Narrated by Martin Geeson
5.0
2 reviews
Audiobook
3 hr 2 min
Unabridged

About this audiobook

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.

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5.0
2 reviews
A Google user
November 5, 2018
I love arkadèp my son

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