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places Turgenev's great novella First Love alongside a selection of his classic stories

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Subtly Worded and Other Stories by Teffi military history places Turgenev's great novella FirstTeffis genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny a wry, scathing observer of society she is also capable, as capable even as Chekhov, of miraculous subtlety and depth of character. There are stories here from her own life (as a child, going to meet Tolstoy to