Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)

by Alexander Pushkin (Author), Charles Johnston (Author), Alexander Pushkin (Author), Charles Johnston (Author), John Bayley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1979

  $6.31

  This is the widely acclaimed translation of Russian literature's most seminal work. Pushkin's novel in verse has influenced Russian prose as well as poetry for more than a century. By turns brilliant, entertaining, romantic and serious, it traces the development of a young Petersburg dandy as he deals with life and love. Influeneced by Byron, Pushkin reveals the nature of his heroes through the emotional colorations found in their witty remarks, nature descriptions, and unexpected actions, all conveyed in stanzas of sonnet length (a form which became known as the Onegin Stanza), faithfully reproduced by Walter Arndt inthis Bollingen Prize translation.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $12.45

  Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favorite work, and this new translation by Stanley Mutchell conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.