Category: Novels
One morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokliovaia Street, * the population of which was sufficient to constitute that of a provincial town, there was lying in bed a gentleman named Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov. He was a fellow of a little over thirty, of medium heig...
One morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokliovaia Street, * the population of which was sufficient to constitute that of a provincial town, there was lying in...
4. PART IVFor many a day after his illness Oblomov’s mood was one of dull and painful despondency; but gradually this became replaced with a phase of mute indifference, in which he would...
3. PART IIIOblomov’s face beamed as he walked home. His blood was boiling, and a light was shining in his eyes. He entered his room--and at once, the radiance disappeared as his eyes, full...
2. PART IIOften Oblomov’s old school friend had endeavoured--though in vain--to wean his comrade from the state of inertia in which he (Oblomov) was plunged. The pair were discussing the...