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First Love

First Love

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Number of Chapters: 5

Length: 3 hours and 03 minutes

Language: English

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)

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1 - Introductory and Chapters I - V (Martin Geeson)
2 - Chapters VI - IX (Martin Geeson)
3 - Chapters X - XIV (Martin Geeson)
4 - Chapters XV - XVII (Martin Geeson)
5 - Chapters XVIII - XXII (Martin Geeson)
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