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The translation and scholarly framing are provided through David Magarshack’s translation work and Milton Ehre’s introduction, bibliography, and chronology. A detailed chronology traces Goncharov’s family background, education, and intellectual environment, setting the groundwork for understanding the novel’s themes.","OBLOMOV  \nIVAN ALEKSANDROVICH GONCHAROV (1812–91) was the son of a rich merchant family. He attended Moscow University for three years, graduating in 1834, and spent most of his life as a civil servant, eventually becoming a censor. Besides publishing three novels, Obyknovennaya istoriya (1847; tr. C. Garnett, A Common Story, 1917), Oblomov (1859; tr. D. Magarshack, 1954), and Obryv (1869; tr. anon., The Precipice, 1915), the main event in his otherwise monotonous life was a voyage to Japan (1852–5) as secretary to a Russian mission, described in Fregat Pallada (1858) . Both in himself and in his environment, he saw the clash between dreamy traditionalism (which could be well-meaning and imaginative) and vigorous practicality (which could be prosaically limited) . This conflict is worked out in A Common Story with ingenious artificiality and in The Precipice with uneven diffuseness; but in Oblomov it is the foundation of one of the most profound Russian novels.  \nDAVID MAGARSHACK was born in Riga, Russia, and educated at a Russian secondary school. He came to England in 1920 and was naturalized in 1931. After graduating in English literature and language at University College, London, he worked in Fleet Street and published a number of novels. For the Penguin Classics he translated Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamozov; Dead Souls by Gogol; and Lady with Lapdog and Other Tales by Chekhov. He also wrote biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Turgenev and Stanislavsky; and he is the author of Chekhov the Dramatist, a critical study of Chekhov’s plays, and a study of Stanislavsky’s system of acting. His last books to be published before his death were The Real Chekhov and a translation of Chekhov’s Four Plays.  \nMILTON EHRE is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures atthe University of Chicago. Among his publications are Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov (1973), Isaac Babel (1986), translations of the plays of Gogol and Chekhov and poems by Anna Akhmatova.  \nIVAN GONCHAROV  \nOblomov  \nTranslated by DAVID MAGARSHACK with an Introduction by MILTON EHRE  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \nPenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England  \nPenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2  \nPenguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa  \nPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England  \n[www.penguin.com](www.penguin.com)  \nOblomov was first published in 1859 This translation first published in 1954  \nReprinted with a new Chronology, Introduction and Further Reading 2005 1  \nTranslation copyright 1954 by David Magarshack  \nChronology, Introduction and Further Reading copyright £ 2005 by Milton Ehre All rights reserved  \nExcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher ’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser  \nEISBN: 9781101492147  \nCONTENTS  \nChronology  \nIntroduction  \nFurther Reading  \nOblomov  \nPart One  \nPart Two  \nPart Three  \nPart Four  \nCHRONOLOGY  \n1812 6 June (Old Style): Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), son of Alexander Ivanovich and Avdotya Matveyevna, the second of six children, four of whom survived. 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