Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 2010
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Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-84749-160-2 (ISBN)
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When the Romantic and 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 mild-mannered 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 doing. Addressing fundamental themes such as the conflicts between art, reality social convention, "Eugene Onegin" 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 subsequent novelists throughout the nineteenth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
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Alma Books Ltd
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-160-2 (9781847491602)
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Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was a dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov and now considered the father of modern Russian literature.