With the exception of The Song of Triumphant Love, which is set in Renaissance Italy, these stories are all partly autobiographical. They demonstrate the evolution of Turgenev's skills and preoccupations, from the diary form of his famout study of Superfluous Man (1850) and his exposure of the tyranny of serfdom in the small masterpiece Mumu (1854), to his most poignant and nostalgic evocations of love, Asya (1858) and First Love (1860).

Mohamed Al Sharakhi

Vitoria Perez

First Love and Other Stories (Everyman's Library, #191)

With the exception of  The Song of Triumphant Love , which is set in Renaissance Italy, these stories are all partly autobiographical. They demonstrate the evolution of Turgenev's skills and preoccupations, from the diary form of his famout study of  Superfluous Man  (1850) and his exposure of the tyranny of serfdom in the small masterpiece  Mumu  (1854), to his most poignant and nostalgic evocations of love,  Asya  (1858) and  First Love  (1860).

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