SOURCE: "Goncharov," in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Studies of Ten Russian Writers, edited by John Fennell, University of California Press, 1973, pp. 130-42.
In the following essay, Gifford analyzes Goncharov's A Common Story, Oblomov, and The Precipice, comparing these novels with the works of Goncharov's Russian contemporaries and examining critical opinion on the trilogy.
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