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 ...
Oblomov was considered a satirical portrait of the Russian aristocracy, who no longer had a useful role in society. Oblomov is a nineteenth century Russian landowner brought up to do nothing for himself. He, like his parents, only eats and sleeps. He barely graduates from college and cannot force himself to do any kind of work, feeling that work ...
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the SOVREMMENIK (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship -- a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky, and Herzen. He had not the marked genius of the ...
Edition: 1st printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1954
Description: First Penguin Edition printed in 1954. No DJ as issued. Age discoloration on cover and pages. No writing in book. One half inch chip out at hinge upper end. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heron Books
Date Published: (ca1960)
Description: Reprint. Twenty-Three volumes bound in red leatherette with decorative gilt on front cover and spine, decorative end papers and yellow cloth bookmark. Various translators and illustrators including Constance Garnett, H.J. Hogarth, Roland Topor, and Philippe Jullian. An over all very good set with the exception of three volumes, The Pushkin volume's spine cover is detached, but present, the Shchedrin volume has white stains on the bottom of the rear cover, and the front gutter is starting to ... read more
Edition: 1st?
Binding: Cloth Covered Hardback
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Date Published: 1915
Description: Very Good in No Dustwrapper jacket. 8vo. A tight possible first edition of this translation by C. J. Hogarth. 317 pages + 3 pages of publisher's advertiesements. The blue/purple cloth covers are faded on the spine the edges of the front cover and along the spine edge on the back cover. The back cover also has quite a large are of loss of colour due to superficial water. The gilt titles on the spine are oxidised but clear. The gilt titles on the front cover are slightly dulled. The front ... read more
Description: Thick octavo with original frontis & other ills. A luxuriously produced series in ornately gilt decorated & impressed scarlet morocco. Silk bookmark. Mint condition. read more
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