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....

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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......

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....

\"Quante volte la mattina avete avuto quella tipica riluttanza a iniziare la giornata, a slittare il badge, fare la spesa, iscrivervi a un corso di inglese, imparare a usare l\'ultimo innovativo oggettino high tech, rassettare la camera da letto, intrattenervi con un collega, un vicino, il vostro portiere?...

Standing on a par with the great tragi-comedies of Dostoevsky and Gogol, Goncharov’s gentle satire on the failings of nineteenth-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire as the novelist probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human s...

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,......

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....