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Ivan Goncharov

Born

in Simbirsk, Russian Federation

June 18, 1812

Died

September 27, 1891

Genre

Fiction

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Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.

Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fict ...more

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	Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, Galya Diment (Introduction), Stephen Pearl (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 43,104 ratings — published 1859 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Same Old Story by Ivan Goncharov, Ivy Litvinov (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 1847 — 133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Precipice 4.12 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 1869 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The frigate Pallada by Ivan Goncharov, Klaus Goetze (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1858 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Petersburgse pest by Ivan Goncharov, Arthur Langeveld (translator) 3.66 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1838 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أبلوموف 1 by Ivan Goncharov, نجاح الجبيلي (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 83 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ninfodora Ivánovna 3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1836 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أبلوموف 2 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Мильон терзаний 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oblomov I 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ivan Goncharov (?)

“When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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“A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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“I desire nothing, seek nothing but peace, the slumber of the soul. I have tasted all the hollowness and wretchedness of life and I despise it heartily. Whoever has lived and thought cannot but, in his soul, despise humanity. Activity, cares, worries, distractions - I am sick of them all. I wish for nothing, I seek nothing. I have no aim, for one gains that which one is eager for - and sees that it is all illusion. My joyous days have passed. I have cooled to them. In the educated world, amidst human beings, I feel the disadvantages of life too strongly, but alone, far from the crowd, I turn to stone. In this trance anything can happen, I see neither others nor myself. I do nothing and do not notice the actions either of others or myself - and I am at peace, I am indifferent. There can be no happiness for me, and I will not succumb to unhappiness.”
― Ivan Goncharov, The Same Old Story

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May 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages

41 votes, 18.6%

1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 776 pages

35 votes, 15.9%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages

29 votes, 13.2%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages

21 votes, 9.5%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages

15 votes, 6.8%

1867, Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, 201 pages

14 votes, 6.4%

1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

1833, Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, 240 pages

11 votes, 5.0%

1886, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, 445 pages

10 votes, 4.5%

1869, Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, 460 pages

9 votes, 4.1%

1864, Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 477 pages

8 votes, 3.6%

1785, The Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe, 224 pages

8 votes, 3.6%

1859, Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages

6 votes, 2.7%

220 total votes

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