Oblomov
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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2005
Summary
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 in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid work, postpone change and - finally - risks losing the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449877 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449876 |
| Author: | Ivan Goncharov, David Magarshack, Milton Ehre |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long, long time. I am in rapture over Oblomov and keep rereading it.” ―Leo Tolstoy
“[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent.” ―Anton Chekhov
About The Author
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian writer best known for his humorous novel Oblomov (1859), a leading work in Russian Realism.
Milton Ehre is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Among his publications are Oblomov and His Creator- The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov, Isaac Babel, translations of the plays of Gogol and Chekhov, and poems by Anna Akhmatova.
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