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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Anthem Cosmopolis Writings)
Eugene Onegin A Novel in Verse - Anthem Cosmopolis Writings Author:Alexander Pushkin A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society ? serf, provincial, aristocrat ? in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable. This is essential reading for anyone with a love of Russian literature, because this is where i... more »t all began. There is little pre-history to that golden age of 19th century novels. Lomonosov, a fisherman?s son turned scholar, took church Slavonic, peasant Russian, mixed in a few ?Loan translations? and gave a French-speaking aristocracy a literary language; Pushkin was the first truly great poet to use it; Yevgeny Onegin is his greatest work.« less