First Love and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

by Ivan Turgenev (Author), Richard Freeborn (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $11.64

  This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity of Turgenev's finest writing. Richard Freeborn was until recently Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.28

  Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) had the ability to expand the significance of a single episode into a story that illustrated a whole life, a relationship, or even an entire age. This collection brings together six of his best-known long short stories in one volume. With the exception of The Song of Triumphant Love , which is set in Renaissance Italy, the stories are all partly autobiographical. They have been chosen to demonstrate the evolution of Turgenev's skills and interests, from the diary form of his famous study of a superfluous man (1850) through his exposure of the tyranny of serfdom in the small work Mumu (1854), to his two evocations of love, Asya (1850) and First Love (1860). The volume also contains an introduction and explanatory notes. Professor Richard Freeborn has previously translated Turgenev's Spring Torrents and Sketches from a Hunters's Album .