Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin (Yevgeny Onegin, ??????? ??????) is a novel in verse written by Aleksandr Pushkin. It is one of the classics of Russian literature and its hero served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes. It was published in serial form between 1823 and 1831. The first complete edition was published in 1833, and the edition the current accepted version is based on was published in 1837.

External links

• Yevgeny Onegin The full text of the poem in Russian
• Eugene Onegin at lib.ru Charles Johnston's complete translation
• The Poetry Lovers' Page (a translation by Yevgeny Bonver)
• Pushkin's Poems (a translation by G. R. Ledger with more of Pushkin's poetry)
• The New York Review of Books Edmund Wilson's A review of Nabokov's translation
• On translating Eugene Onegin a poem by Nabokov defending his choice to translate Onegin into free verse
• What's Gained in Translation An article by Douglas Hofstadter on the book, which explains how he can judge the relative worth of different translations of Onegin without being able to read Russian