The monograph ('The Beginnings of Slovene Narrative Prose'), the first edition of which was published online in 2021, places the beginnings of original Slovene narrative prose in a broader literary context. The emergence of the first original Slovene narrative, Janez Cigler’s Sreča v nesreči ('Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining'), first published in 1836, is examined in the continuity of translations of narrative works into Slovene since the 17th century, with a focus on the period of the 1820s and 1830s, which created fertile ground and literary patterns that Cigler transformed into an original Slovene version of the Biedermeier. The second part of the monograph examines the reception and canonisation of Sreča v nesreči through a text-critical analysis of its editions over a period of more than 150 years and in a broader context, including the question of its placement in the system of Slovenian literature from the perspective of its addressee. Both parts of the research are supported by quantitative stylometric analyses that examine, confirm and complement this research with new perspectives and, among other things, reveal the incorrect authorship attribution of some works.