First love, and other stories
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About This Book
Excerpt from The Works of Iván TurgénieffThen what are we to do? -began the host. There was nothing very startling about my first love either; I never fell in love with any one before Anna Ivanovna, now my wife; and every thing ran as though on oil with us; our fathers made up the match, we very promptly fell in love with each other, and entered the bonds of matri mony without delay. My story can be told in two words. I must confess, gentlemen, that in rais ing the question of first love, I set my hopes on you, I will not say old, but yet no longer young bachelors. Will not you divert us with ...
Chapters (382)(click to expand)
- FIRST LOVE AND OTHER STORIES
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- FIRST LOVE (1860)
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- A CORRESPONDENCE (1855)
- I From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- II From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- III From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- IV From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- V From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- VI From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- VII From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- VIII From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- IX From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- X From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- XI From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- XII From Alexyéi Petróvich to Márya Alexándrovna
- XIII From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- XIV From Márya Alexándrovna to Alexyéi Petróvitch
- XV From Alexyéi Petróvitch to Márya Alexándrovna
- THE REGION OF DEAD CALM (1854)
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- IT IS ENOUGH (1864) A FRAGMENT FROM THE DIARY OF A DEAD ARTIST
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- THE DOG (1866)
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