A review by ablotial
First Love by Ivan Turgenev

5.0

I absolutely LOVED this story. I was completely absorbed in it. Although I did predict the twist at the end, but somehow that didn't make it any worse for me. I plan to buy it ASAP. Basically, it's the story of a man's first love, he'd fallen in love with the girl next door, who had a very eccentric mother who his own mother did not approve of him spending time around. It tells how she treated him, all he did for her, and of course a twist at the end to say why they cannot be together. Wonderful. The edition I read is the 1978 Penguin Classics Edition - I don't know how or if that differs from the 2007 Penguin Love Stories (Non-classics) edition.