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The Precipice

Author
Ivan Goncharov
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
286 pages
ISBN
9781910150603
Published
15 February 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Gocharov
  • Oblomov
  • Woman
  • Motherland
  • God
  • love
  • satire
  • humour
  • Russian classic
  • social order

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Description

Vera between three men, a Russian estate, a fall that is not only a cliff. Goncharov’s Precipice is love as a choice of worlds: artist, gentleman, tempter. Society’s script versus a woman’s nerve. Raisky the dilettante, Mark the nihilist, a grandfather’s house. Vera’s fall is moral before it is anything else. Goncharov slower than a plot, exact as a household. Raisky painting, Mark preaching, a grandfather’s house: Vera’s fall is moral long before it is a cliff.

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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