{"product_id":"2940171944506","title":"First Love","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThe title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The \"boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her\" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. \u003cem\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/em\u003e is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's \"epiphanies\") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. \"but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol.\" (Summary by Martin Geeson)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150997930224,"sku":"2940171944506","price":0.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171944506_p0.jpg?v=1763749924","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171944506","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}