It is a winter evening, and Yegor Aduyev, the scion of a wealthy
family from the landed gentry, slips into the house of Baron
Neilein 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, an early novella of 1839, written when Goncharov was still
in his twenties, is accompanied here by Two Incidents at Sea, a
story penned almost twenty years later and based on two dangerous
scrapes the author survived during his recent voyage on the frigate
Pallada. Taken together, these two stories – translated for the
first time into English by Stephen Pearl – are further proof of
the eclectic narrative skills of the celebrated author of Oblomov.
General
| Imprint: |
Alma Classics
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ivan Goncharov
|
| Translators: |
Stephen Pearl
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
128 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84749-911-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-84749-911-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781847499110 |
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