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After his university studies and a short stint in the army and the civil service, thirty-something Boris Pavlovich Raisky enjoys the life of an artist, frequenting St Petersburg's elegant circles, dabbing at his paintings, playing a little music and entertaining thoughts of writing... Read Full Overview

The Precipice is the third novel by Ivan Goncharov, first published in January-May 1869 issues of Vestnik Evropy magazine. The novel, conceived in 1849, took twenty years to be completed. The author considered it to be his most definitive work, where he was able to realize fully... Read Full Overview

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Reproduction of the original: The Precipice by Ivan Goncharov

Reproduction of the original: The Precipice by Ivan Goncharov

The Precipice is a novel by Ivan Goncharov, originally published in 1869. It follows the story of a young man named Alexei Ivanovich, who is struggling to find his place in the world. Alexei is a dreamer, constantly searching for something more in life, but he is also indecisive... Read Full Overview

The Precipice is the third novel by Ivan Goncharov, first published in January-May 1869 issues of Vestnik Evropy magazine. The novel, conceived in 1849, took twenty years to be completed and has been preceded by the publication of the three extracts. The author considered it... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This edition of Original Russian OBRYV by Ivan Goncharov is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition

A brilliant example of psychological prose, drawing general and in particular on the basis of creating a deeply personal story a true picture of the ideas and manners of intellectual nobility Russia around the time the middle of the XIX century. This is a novel about the strong... Read Full Overview

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the SOVREMMENIK (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship -- a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky,... Read Full Overview