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The Torrents of Spring

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1 - Introductory and Chapters I - V
38:11
2 - Chapters VI - IX
44:43
3 - Chapters X - XIV
29:48
4 - Chapters XV - XVII
33:35
5 - Chapters XVIII - XXII
37:03

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Ivan Turgenev drew on his own memories for this bittersweet novella, framed as an aging man's reckoning with the love he let slip away. Dmitry Sanin, a young Russian traveling home through Frankfurt, wanders into a confectionery and helps revive a fainting boy. He falls for the boy's sister, Gemma, a spirited Italian girl, and their tender courtship seems to promise a whole future together. Then a wealthy, married woman with a taste for conquest sets out to have him, and Sanin's weakness quietly undoes everything. Turgenev writes the ache of first love and the shame of squandering it with a precision that lingers long after the final page. This free PDF and EPUB edition brings the complete novella to readers today.

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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist whose lyrical, humane fiction·Fathers and Sons, First Love·introduced Russian literature to Western Europe. He was a master of the novella.