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The Torrents of Spring

Ivan Turgenev
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  1. THE TORRENTS OF SPRING
  2. * * *
  3. IVAN TURGENEV
  4. CONSTANCE GARNETT
  5. *
  6. Contents
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  8. The Torrents of Spring
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  10. I
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  12. II
  13. *
  14. III
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  16. IV
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  18. V
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  20. VI
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  22. VII
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  24. VIII
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  26. IX
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  28. X
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  30. XI
  31. *
  32. XII
  33. *
  34. XIII
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  36. XIV
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  38. XV
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  40. XVI
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  42. XVII
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  44. XVIII
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  46. XIX
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  48. XX
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  50. XXI
  51. *
  52. XXII
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  54. XXIII
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  56. XXIV
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  58. XXV
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  60. XXVI
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  62. XXVII
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  64. XXVIII
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  66. XXIX
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  68. XXX
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  70. XXXI
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  72. XXXII
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  74. XXXIII
  75. *
  76. XXXIV
  77. *
  78. XXXV
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  80. XXXVI
  81. *
  82. XXXVII
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  84. XXXVIII
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  86. XXXIX
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  88. XL
  89. *
  90. XLI
  91. *
  92. XLII
  93. *
  94. XLIII
  95. *
  96. XLIV
  97. *
  98. First Love
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  100. I
  101. *
  102. II
  103. *
  104. III
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  106. IV
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  108. V
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  110. VI
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  112. VII
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  114. VIII
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  116. IX
  117. *
  118. X
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  120. XI
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  122. XII
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  124. XIII
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  126. XIV
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  128. XV
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  130. XVI
  131. *
  132. XVII
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  134. XVIII
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  136. XIX
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  138. XX
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  140. XXI
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  142. XXII
  143. *
  144. Mumu
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  146. * * *
  147. Endnotes
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THE TORRENTS OF SPRING

AND FIRST LOVE

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IVAN TURGENEV

Translated by

CONSTANCE GARNETT

Duke Classics

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The Torrents of Spring
And First Love
First published in 1872
ISBN 978-1-62011-777-4
Duke Classics
© 2012 Duke Classics and its licensors. All rights reserved.

While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in this edition, Duke Classics does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. Duke Classics does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book.

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Endnotes

The Torrents of Spring

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'Years of gladness,
Days of joy,
Like the torrents of spring
They hurried away.'

—From an Old Ballad.

... At two o'clock in the night he had gone back to his study. He had dismissed the servant after the candles were lighted, and throwing himself into a low chair by the hearth, he hid his face in both hands.

Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance ... and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the 'disgust for life,' taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force. Had he been a little younger, he would have cried with misery, weariness, and exasperation: a biting, burning bitterness, like the bitter of wormwood, filled his whole soul. A sort of clinging repugnance, a weight of loathing closed in upon him on all sides like a dark night of autumn; and he did not know how to get free from this darkness, this bitterness. Sleep it was useless to reckon upon; he knew he should not sleep.