Oblomov (1915)

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Oblomov (1915)
by Ivan Goncharov, translated by C. J. Hogarth
Title & ToC
Ivan Goncharov1909870Oblomov — Title & ToC1915C. J. Hogarth

OBLOMOV


BY

IVAN GONCHAROV


TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY

C. J. HOGARTH





LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, LTD.

RUSKIN HOUSE40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.

First published in 1915


(All rights reserved)

"Oblomov" is one of the greatest Russian classics, and has never before been translated into English. It constitutes a study of a perfectly new type in Russian fiction—of a man who, though plunged in a slough of apathy from which nothing can arouse him, is yet a man of fine and noble instincts. What he utterly lacks and is ruined by, is his total lack of will-power.

Mr. Maurice Baring says: "In Oblomov Goncharov created a type which has become immortal, and Oblomov has passed into the Russian tongue, just as Tartuffe has passed into the French language, or Pecksniff into the English tongue."

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