First Love (Annotated)

Ivan Turgenev's First Love is a finely wrought novella of memory, desire, and disillusionment, recounting the adolescent Vladimir's infatuation with the captivating Zinaida. Written with Turgenev's characteristic psychological delicacy and lyrical restraint, the work transforms a seemingly intimate romance into a study of emotional awakening and moral shock. Its elegant realism, poised between Rom...