A group of characters in this novel are anxious about a letter they receive, and after four days of trepidation, they open it and are delighted to learn it's only a request for a beer recipe.
A group of characters in this novel are anxious about a letter they receive, and after four days of trepidation, they open it and are delighted to learn it's only a request for a beer recipe. The protagonist of this novel embarrases himself in front of a girl when he accidentally serves himself too many biscuits and then forces himself to "demolish" them out of shame. An extremely long dream sequence in this novel describes the protagonist's idyllic childhood in thecountryside, where the only things to worry about are a rickety balcony and a nearby ravine. The servant Zakhar cannot clean the home of the title character, who is in love with Olga, but loses her to his friend Andrei Stoltz. The title character of this work does not get out of his bed until chapter four, and is an archetypical "superfluous man". For 10 points, name this novel about a lazy Russian nobleman, written by Ivan Goncharov.
A group of characters in this novel are anxious about a letter they receive, and after four days of trepidation, they open it and are delighted to learn it's only a request for a beer recipe.
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