The Same Old Story: New Translation

Zusatztext Reading The Same Old Story conveys the pleasure of an overheard conversation Informationen zum Autor Ivan Goncharov Klappentext Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappointment in the fields of love, friendship and poetical ambition, Alexander must decide whether to return to the homely values he has left behind or adapt to the ruthless rules and morals of city life. Told in the author's trademark humorous style and presented in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, The Same Old Story - Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Told in the author's trademark humorous style and presented in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, The Same Old Story - Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Ivan Goncharov, Ivan A. Goncharov, GONCHAROV IVAN, Iwan Aleksandrowitsch Gontscharow
• Assisted by: Stephen Pearl (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9781847495624
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-562-4
• No. of pages: 385
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Alma Classics; Alma Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Russian Literature; lost illusions; spiritual awakening