A Serendipitous Error and an Evil Malady: First English Translation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847499110)

It is a winter evening, and Yegor Aduyev, the scion of a wealthy family from the landed gentry, slips into the house of Baron Neyleyn with the intention of asking his beautiful daughter, the eighteen-year-old Yelena, to be his wife. Will the besotted lover be successful in his pursuit or will the young coquette - who seems at times to reciprocate his feelings, but who lavished lingering looks on two dashing princes during a recent ball - shatter his hopes, his dreams and his entire world?

A Serendipitous Error, written in 1839, when Goncharov was still in his twenties, is accompanied here by another early novella, An Evil Malady and a short fictional fragment. Taken together, these stories - translated for the first time into English - are further proof of the eclectic narrative skills of the celebrated author of Oblomov.

Author: Ivan Goncharov
ISBN-10: 1847499112
ISBN-13: 9781847499110
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.39d