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{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Hardcover, 558 pages Published: 1859 Edition: Seven Stories Press (2008) Greatest Books (amalgamated list of best books) Translated from the Russian by: Marian Schwartz (2008) Afterword by: Mikhail Shishkin (2008) 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, given to any excuse to remain horizontal-Oblomov is hardly the stuff of heroes. Yet, he is impossible not to admire. The image of this gentle daydreamer, roused to action for one brief period of ardent but begotten love, is a fixture of Russian culture. He is forgiven for his weakness and beloved for his shining soul. Ivan Goncharov's masterpiece is not just ingenious social satire, but also a sharp criticism of nineteenth-century Russian society. Translator Marian Schwartz breathes new life into Gonc

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Author

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published

1859

Language

EN

ISBN

9781583228401

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.01 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14