TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goncharov,Ivan Aleksandrovich
TI  - The Precipice
AV  - PG 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Love stories
KW  - Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
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N2  - "The Precipice" by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov is a novel published in 1869. Three men compete for the love of Vera, an independent and intelligent woman: Boris Raisky, a dilettante artist; Mark Volokhov, a nihilist preaching materialism and atheism; and Ivan Tushin, an enlightened landowner. Their struggle reflects broader tensions between new philosophical ideas and traditional values in Russian society. The novel also features Raisky's wise grandmother, creating a portrait of women navigating a changing world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7307
ER  -