Ivan Goncharov
Born
in Simbirsk, Russian Federation
June 18, 1812
Died
September 27, 1891
Genre
Oblomov
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1193 editions
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published
1859
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The Same Old Story
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125 editions
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published
1847
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The Precipice
36 editions
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published
1869
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The frigate Pallada
by
26 editions
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published
1858
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De Petersburgse pest
by
6 editions
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published
1838
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أبلوموف 1
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Ninfodora Ivánovna
7 editions
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published
1836
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Мильон терзаний
4 editions
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published
2013
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Hayırlı Bir Hata
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La malattia malvagia
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“When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
“A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
“I desire nothing, seek nothing but peace, the slumber of the soul. I have tasted all the hollowness and wretchedness of life and I despise it heartily. Whoever has lived and thought cannot but, in his soul, despise humanity. Activity, cares, worries, distractions - I am sick of them all. I wish for nothing, I seek nothing. I have no aim, for one gains that which one is eager for - and sees that it is all illusion. My joyous days have passed. I have cooled to them. In the educated world, amidst human beings, I feel the disadvantages of life too strongly, but alone, far from the crowd, I turn to stone. In this trance anything can happen, I see neither others nor myself. I do nothing and do not notice the actions either of others or myself - and I am at peace, I am indifferent. There can be no happiness for me, and I will not succumb to unhappiness.”
― The Same Old Story
― The Same Old Story
Polls
August 2016 Old School Classic Poll
-800,The OdysseybyHomer,560 pages
44 votes,
23.2%
1857,The ProfessorbyCharlotte Brontë,269 pages
41 votes,
21.6%
1320,The Divine ComedybyDante Alighieri,798 pages
26 votes,
13.7%
1883,Life on the MississippibyMark Twain,384 pages
17 votes,
8.9%
1860,The Mill on the FlossbyGeorge Eliot,579 pages
16 votes,
8.4%
1830,The Red and the BlackbyStendhal,608 pages
15 votes,
7.9%
1782,Les Liaisons DangereusesbyPierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos,448 pages
13 votes,
6.8%
1838,The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketbyEdgar Allan Poe,288 pages
13 votes,
6.8%
1859,OblomovbyIvan Goncharov,567 pages
5 votes,
2.6%
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