The complete online text of The Precipice by Ivan Goncharov.

The Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) is one of the great realists of Russian literature. His novel "Oblomov" is a classic of Russian fiction. Ivan Goncharov was born of a well-to-do family. Although the family background was of...

Although Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, he is now best remembered for one novel, Oblomov (1859), an indisputable classic of Russian literature that in its artistic stature and cu...

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