Boilers In. A. Ivan Goncharov: Kn. for students . Grades. - M. : Education, 1993. — 191 s. — (Biogr. The writer ....... [ ) — ISBN 5-09-003224-6 . The author of the book tells about Goncharov's childhood and adolescence in Simbirsk, about his student years at Moscow University, where Goncharov studied at the same time with Belinsky, Herzen, Stankevich, Lermontov, Ogarev .. Details reveal the relationship of Goncharov with the family of the artist N. A. Maikov, the founder of the literary salon, in the handwritten journals of which the first novels of the writer appeared, “The Bare Pain” and “Happy Mistake” Young reader learns about the journey of Goncharov around the world, his impressions of visiting Africa, Java, China, Japan The book analyzes the most important works of the writer - "Ordinary History", "Breakthrough", "Oblomov" One of the sections is devoted to Goncharov-critic.