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  • The Precipice

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    "The Precipice" is a philosophical and psychological novel that delves into the complexities of human nature and societal issues.The story follows the life of Alexei Ivanovich, a government clerk who struggles with personal dilemmas and existential questions. As he reflects on his life, relationships, and the challenges of his time, the novel examines themes of disillusionment, moral conflicts, ... Read more

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  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov is a celebrated masterpiece of Russian literature that offers a profound and often humorous exploration of human nature, society, and the struggle between dreams and action. First published in 1859, the novel presents one of the most memorable characters in literary history and provides a powerful reflection on the social and cultural atmosphere of nineteenth-century ... Read more

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  • Oblomov (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Classic Russian Satirical Novel

    by Ivan Goncharov, Elowen Quenmere ...
    Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov is one of the defining novels of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a penetrating comic tragedy of inertia, privilege, and moral paralysis. Through the unforgettable figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov—gentle, intelligent, yet almost incapable of sustained action—Goncharov transforms domestic indolence into a broad cultural diagnosis. The novel's measured prose, psychological ... Read more

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  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    The novel focuses on the life of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. Oblomov is a member of the upper middle class and the son of a member of Russia's nineteenth century landed gentry. Oblomov's distinguishing characteristic is his slothful attitude towards life. Oblomov raises this trait to an art form, conducting his little daily business from his bed.The first part of the book finds ... Read more

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  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Translated by David Magarshack ...
    Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate ... Read more

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  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov ...
    ONE morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokhovaia Street, the population of which was sufficient to constitute that of a provincial town, there was lying in bed a gentleman named Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov. He was a fellow of a little over thirty, of medium height, and of pleasant exterior. Unfortunately, in his dark-grey eyes there was an absence of any definite idea, and in his other ... Read more

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  • Oblamov

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Oblomov is the Russian novel by Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859, which poses the question: what if a man was so lazy that he could do nothing?Nobody does psychological insight like nineteenth-century Russian novelists. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov and Turgenev liked to take characters and pass them under the microscope of analysis and evaluation.Not for them the dash and flash ... Read more

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  • An Ordinary Story

    A Novel

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    A nineteenth century Russian literature classic that "can still make new readers laugh and gasp with recognition over timeless human foibles." ( The Guardian)An Ordinary Story describes the coming of age of Alexander Aduyev, a romantic young man from the provinces who moves to Petersburg in search of love and a career. Psychologically acute in its delineation of Aduyev's relationship with his ... Read more

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  • Malinovka Heights: New Translation

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Translated by Stephen Pearl ...
    Conceived twenty years before its initial publication in 1869, and regarded by its author as his best work, Malinovka Heights (previously translated in English as The Precipice) is Goncharov’s crowning achievement as a novelist and a triumph of psychological insight. Here presented for the first time in unabridged form in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, Goncharov’s final novel ... Read more

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  • Oblomov

    by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov ...
    Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering 'No!' to the question "To be or not to be?" Oblomov is a young, generous ... Read more

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  • The Precipice

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Series series World Classics
    The Precipice considered Goncharov's best work where he was able to realize his artistic ambition to the full. Dreams and aspirations of Raisky sounding like a sonorous chord, praising a Woman, Motherland, God and love. ... Read more

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  • The Same Old Story

    by Ivan Goncharov ...
    Translated by Stephen Pearl ...
    Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappointment in the fields of love, friendship and poetical ambition, Alexander must decide whether to return to the homely values he has left behind or adapt ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD