Классическая отечественная проза на англ языке — Иван Александрович Гончаров

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid work, postpone change and - finally - risks losing...

Standing on a par with the great tragi-comedies of Dostoevsky and Gogol, Goncharov’s gentle satire on the failings of nineteenth-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire as the novelist probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human spirit in an alienating world.