Description:
First Love and Spring Torrents-poignant tales of love, betrayal, and redemption-rank as two of Turgenev's finest literary accomplishments. Includes a foreword by Joseph Conrad, a new afterword, and a chronology.
Brief description: Franklin Reeve (1928-2013) was an American academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor. He taught Russian language and literature at Columbia University before becoming chairman of the Russian Department at Wesleyan. Reeve was the founding editor of Poetry Review and the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and translation.
Review Quotes:
"No one writes better about unrequited love."
-The Paris Review
"Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was."
-Ernest Hemingway