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First Love

Ivan Turgenev

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1860
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 50

A sixteen-year-old boy falls helplessly for the young princess next door, joins the circle of suitors she torments, and discovers the rival she actually loves is his own father.

O youth, youth! little dost thou care for anything; thou art master, as it were, of all the treasures of the universe.
First Love, Ivan Turgenev

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