Once Bazarov has awakened to an awareness of his individuality, he begins to question his worth as a unique person, to contemplate his insignificance in the face of eternity, and to doubt the meaning of his actions—that is, he begins the transformation from a Quixotic to a Hamlet-type that has been described in critical literature.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.

The organization of “bogus companies,” started purely for the purpose of eliminating competitors, seems to have been a not infrequent practice.