About this book
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lensky's fiancee - Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making.Eugene Onegin - presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary - was the founding text of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Eugene Onegin
- Dedication
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Oneginâs Journey
- Note on the Text
- Notes and Commentary
- Notes to Chapter One
- Notes to Chapter Two
- Notes to Chapter Three
- Notes to Chapter Four
- Notes to Chapter Five
- Notes to Chapter Six
- Notes to Chapter Seven
- Notes to Chapter Eight
- Notes to OnĂ©ginâs Journey
- Note on âChapter Tenâ
- Extra Material on Alexander Pushkinâs Eugene Onegin
- Alexander Pushkinâs Life
- Eugene Onegin
- Translatorâs Note
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix
- Passages of Eugene Onegin excluded by Pushkin from the 1837 edition
- Notes on the Appendix
