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The Precipice

Author
Ivan Goncharov
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
9 hours 58 minutes
ISBN
9781802566109
Published
13 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Gocharov
  • Oblomov
  • Woman
  • Motherland
  • God
  • love
  • satire
  • humour
  • Russian classic
  • social order

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Description

Vera between three men on a Russian estate: Raisky the idle artist, Mark the nihilist, a grandfather’s law. Goncharov’s Precipice, unabridged in English, is a fall that is moral long before it is a cliff — society’s script versus a woman’s nerve, a slow house, love as a choice of worlds. Hear the household, not a plot racing. Exact as furniture, dangerous as a choice. Oblomov’s author on a longer nerve: provincial Russia, three suitors, one precipice.

Author

Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) was a Russian novelist whose masterpiece Oblomov gave the world one of literature's most memorable portraits of inertia and gentle melancholy. Alongside The Same Old Story and The Precipice, his fiction combines social observation with a humane, often comic attention to everyday life.

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