ARGONAUT BOOKS

'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.