Books with title First Love True Love

An extraordinary portrait of true love that will move anyone who has a first love story of their own Axi Moore is a good girl: She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone how all she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson-who she also happens to be madly in love with. When Axi spontaneously invites Robinson to come with her on an impulsive cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out of control after the teens find themselves on the run from the police. And when Robinson suddenly collapses, Axi has to face the truth that this trip might be his last. A remarkably moving tale very personal to James Patterson's own past, First Love is testament to the power of first love-and how it can change the rest of your life.

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, 1860. Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Turgenev was born to wealthy, noble Russian parents and grew up surrounded by by foreign governesses; thus he became fluent in French, German and English languages. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman’s Sketches is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

First Love is an example of a frame story. The story starts with the protagonist, Vladimir Petrovich, at a party. The three guests, all men "not old but no longer young", are taking turns recounting the stories of their first loves. When Vladimir's turn comes to tell his story, he suggests he write down the story in a notebook because it is a rather long, unusual tale and he is not adept at extemporaneous narration. The other men agree and a few weeks later the story within the story continues with Vladimir reading from his notebook as he recounts the memory of his first love.

First Love was published in March 1860 in the Reader's Library. Like many of Turgenev's works, this one is highly autobiographical. Indeed, the author claimed it was the most autobiographical of all his works. Here Turgenev is retelling an incident from his own life, his infatuation with a young neighbor in the country, Catherine Shakovskoy (the Zinaida of the novella), an infatuation that lasted until his discovery that Catherine was in fact his own father's mistress.