He would spend his days studying, horse riding and strolling through the Neskootchny Park, but when he notices a “tall, slender girl in a striped pink dress with a white kerchief on her head” in the garden next door he is immediately smitten. He is 40 now, but he recalls the time he stayed in a holiday house – “a wooden building with pillars and two small, low lodges” - in the country with his parents. First Love is exactly what the title suggests: a man looks back on his first love. First published in 1860, it has been beautifully repackaged and republished as part of Penguin’s Great Love series.Īt just over 100 pages, this is a book that can quickly be read in one sitting (I achieved it via two 20-minute train journeys), although its brevity should not be mistaken for shallowness. Translated from the Russian by Isaiah Berlin.įirst Love is Russian writer Ivan Turgenev’s most famous novella. Fiction – paperback Penguin Classics 102 pages 2007.
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