A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady: First English Translation

First translation into English and further proof of the eclectic narrative skills of the celebrated author of Oblomov.

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, Stephen Pearl
• | Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Nov 23, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781847499110
• | ISBN-10: 1847499112