An Uncommon Story

by Ivan Goncharov

Stephen Pearl (Translator)

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Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as “the real heir to Nikolai Gogol”. But the publication of Turgenev’s first full-length novel, A Nest of the Gentry, in 1859, at around the same time as Goncharov’s Oblomov, which had been more than ten years in the making, suddenly changed the public’s perception. Turgenev’s success was eyed with suspicion by his rival, who started to believe that his work in progress, Malinovka Heights, had been plagiarized by his former friend.

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  • ISBN10 1847499023
  • ISBN13 9781847499028
  • Publish Date 21 September 2023
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 26 May 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Alma Books Ltd
  • Imprint Alma Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English