Ivan Turgenev presents First Love

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Love Author: Ivan Turgenev Narrator: Martin Geeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: 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)