The Precipice

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Isaac Levitan, Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Kramskoi. An artist and dilettante comes down from Petersburg to his grandmother's estate on the Volga to find himself, and finds instead two cousins, a nihilist in the hills, and a garden with a ravine at the end of it where a man once shot himself. Goncharov spent thirty years in government service, much o...