At B&N Reads Jeff Somers tagged "five shut-ins from some terrific books," including:Ilya Ilyich Oblomov in Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov
It takes about 50 pages for Ilya Ilyich Oblomov to get out of bed and sit in a chair, exhausted by the effort. A rich landlord in the Russian Empire, Oblomov is intended to satirize the lazy, do-nothing lifestyle prized by many Russian aristocrats, and boy-howdy,
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