Literature , Classics
A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady
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.
- Goncharov, Ivan
- Bloomsbury USA
- 2024
- 128
- 9781847499110
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