There was no statue of Jesus on the cross, though —no Mary or Ganesh or Buddha or L. Ron Hubbard, either, or whoever it was people prayed to around here. There was just that red—the red of valentines, of blood.
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.
First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. Like many of Turgenev's works, this one is highly autobiographical.
It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. First Love is an example of a frame story. The story starts with the protagonist, Vladimir Petrovich, at a party.
From Turgenev's First Love to the formative works of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, E. M. Forster, and Vladimir Nabokov, First Love confirms the birth of an artistic vocation.
Bride-to-be Julia Spinelli finds her plans of throwing the greatest wedding in Fredericksburg, Texas, history thwarted by the arrival of her father, in all his tacky glory, who refuses to pay for the wedding unless she can convince him that ...
Haunting woodcut illustrations complement a dark tale of adolescent love, divided family loyalties, psychological manipulation, and betrayal in the story of eleven-year-old Josie and her relationship with an intriguing, twenty-five-year-old ...
Hayden himself is something of a local legend. And now that he’s returned, he’s shaking the town, stirring up the old feud that separated him from Nadine. Will the pull of first love overpower the strength of old resentments?
In this New York Times bestseller, two high school students leave their hometown on the West Coast to go on an impulsive cross-country road trip in this moving romance about friendship and the power of love.
When Axi Moore decides to take a road trip across the US, the only person she wants to go with her is her best friend Robinson – who she also happens to be secretly in love with.
In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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Drawing us into the battleground of this marriage, Gwendoline Riley tells a transfixing story of mistakes and misalliances, of helplessness and hostility, in which both husband and wife have played a part.
That pale yellow silk shirt emphasizes your tan and the highlights in your dark hair.” Mark's comments about her were discomfiting. “And with a body like yours, you should wear more formfitting clothes.
Dr. Bright shares a heart-to-heart talk on how the Holy Spirit is a very real person in the daily life of the believer and is the only source of strength for maintaining our First Love.
Heading overseas for his father's company, the distance didn't stop him from keeping an eye on Eva. Because she was his first--and forever--love.
Containing never-before-seen snapshots of a road trip of a lifetime When Axi Moore decides to take a road trip across the US, the only person she wants to go with...
By 1956 Violeta Barrett had been working for a Wall Street investment firm more than a decade. Recently separated from her husband and feeling overworked, Violeta decided to vacation in Mexico.
Adam & Sandra are dancers, friends & now lovers.
Here he positively asserts that what has been lost can be found again, and offers ways to help Christians restore the fire and conviction of their first love for Christ.