First Love

by Ivan S. Turgenev

First Love (1860) is Turgenev's most autobiographical story, based on his own boyhood infatuation with an older young woman, his country neighbor, Catherine Shakovskoy (Zinaida character), and later discovery that she was his father's mistress. Retrieved from his collection, The Torrents of Spring (1897), translated by Constance Garnett. [Photo of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, before 1918.] It is reminiscent of one of our favorite boyhood "crush" stories, Araby by James Joyce.

First Love, photo of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaeyna

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII