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First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member... Read Full Overview

AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY HARDCOVER CLASSIC. Ivan Goncharov's 1859 masterpiece--a magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed--brilliantly employs humor to explore the absurdities and injustices of an outmoded social order. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov... Read Full Overview

For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the classic Russian novel about an indolent aristocrat who spends most of his days in bed

The best-known work by the 19th century Russian novelist about a man who lacks willpower and self-confidence.

Ivan Goncharov was a Russian novelist who achieved literary fame later in life, after a career in the civil-service which spanned more than thirty years. His first novel, "A Common Story", was a definitive success and his notoriety was cemented with the publication of his... Read Full Overview

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. Indolent,... Read Full Overview

Roman I. A. Goncharova Oblomov - vydajushheesja proizvedenie russkoj literatury XIX v., i svoeobraznejshee ee javlenie, ibo ono, vo-pervyh, obstojatel'no i tshhatel'no raskrylo original'nyj harakter, vospitannyj nacional'noj i social'noj sredoj togo vremeni, a vo-vtoryh, vyjavilo... Read Full Overview

One morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokliovaia 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,... Read Full Overview

AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY HARDCOVER CLASSIC.

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination--indeed,... Read Full Overview

ГОНЧАРОВ Иван Александрович (1812 - 1891 гг.), прозаик, критик.

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The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled "Oblomov's Dream". The novel focuses on the midlife crisis of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, an upper middle class son of a member of Russia's nineteenth century landed gentry. Oblomov's distinguishing... Read Full Overview

Роман И. А. Гончарова "Обломов" - одно из самых глубоких... Read Full Overview