First Love

Name: First Love
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Ivan Turgenev
ISBN: 9781918090048

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Narrator: Lucy Walker

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Published: 07/24/2025

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Classic

Synopsis

Russia 1833 When a Royal Princess moves into the country house next-door to sixteen year old Vladímir Petróvitch’s parents, Vladímir is sent into the mysterious world of first love, where he must keep his passion burning and not fall too deep into despair as he is pitted against other suitors in-order to win the princess’s hand. Though it’s not all as it seems… Through the chase for the princess’s love Vladímir learns of a scandal that will fall deep into the heart of his family and show him how brutal love can be.

About Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of nineteenth-century fiction. His other novels include Rudin, On the Eve, and Virgin Soil.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse on December 21, 2022

O sweet feelings, soft sounds, goodness and peace of a moved spirit, the melting joy of the first tender emotions of love - - where are you, where are you? Nostalgia. Reading First love made me wonder on the nature of nostalgia. Is the nostalgic feeling negative or positive? Is First love, the 1860 no......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 25, 2018

Sensitive. Romantic. Sincere. Imaginative story. Cleverly told. A must for anyone who likes to read.......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro on February 25, 2018

Not my kind of "love" story. UNUSUAL FIRST RUSSIAN LOVE Ivan Turgenev was the first Russian writer to become popular and successful in Europe, even way way WAY before of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy,, thanks to that Turgenev left Russia and he was living several years in different countries of Euro......more