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Oh, I do like how Turgenev writes. He gets to the core of characters. You understand who they are, why each one acts as they do. He also has great ability to draw a place so it comes alive and you see it , feel it and almost smell it. Like a park at night....... and what Vladimir discovered that night!
Back track: this is about a sixteen year-old's first love. (Do you recall yours?!) He falls head over heels for a self-centered, manipulative, pretty girl. She knows she is pretty and she has her ...more
Back track: this is about a sixteen year-old's first love. (Do you recall yours?!) He falls head over heels for a self-centered, manipulative, pretty girl. She knows she is pretty and she has her ...more
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From BBC radio 4:
Ivan Turgenev’s masterpiece tells the story of a young man who, over the course of one enchanted summer, falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful neighbour, only to find himself desperately entangled in illicit passion and betrayal.
Read by Alex Waldmann
Abridged and produced by Robin Brooks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... ...more
From BBC radio 4:
Ivan Turgenev’s masterpiece tells the story of a young man who, over the course of one enchanted summer, falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful neighbour, only to find himself desperately entangled in illicit passion and betrayal.
Read by Alex Waldmann
Abridged and produced by Robin Brooks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000... ...more
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