Name: Eugene Onegin
ISBN: 9780465020942

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Douglas R. Hofstadter

A Novel in Verse

Eugene Onegin

a novel in verse

Kwan Ann Tan

the opera was so much better, i really pushed myself through this one

Arden Kowalski

Ville

this book is incredible!!! i love onegin's character so so much. the story is so tragic and so beautiful, it's definitely the best classic i've read so far. and it was for a class too, so i was pleasantly surprised:) i annotated a Lot because the poetry was just so amazing - i usually don't go for novels in verse since i often find it hard to focus but i had no problem w onegin. 
i could go on and on so i think it's enough to say a bit but. the characters were so intriguing to read about, their chemistry and development too. onegin, lensky and tatyana really made the novel for me.<3 

Анастасия Розова

4.75/5
*Read for class. 

Oh, gods, Pushkin is a true genius. I mean, everybody knows it, but still. I think reading this in school, unlike some other classics, is a very, very right notion. It's just great. 

I don't think Eugene Onegin needs another review, it's a world-known classic. Just going to say that I loved it!

This is the best classic I've ever read. So incredibly witty, fun, charming, heart-breaking, hilarious, wonderful - please stop me before I add even more adjectives. 

This new translation in particular is perfect and combines beauty with flowing rhymes and readability. I loved how Pushkin keeps breaking the fourth wall to comment on his characters, his rhymes, how critics will react - it feels like a post-modern novel when it's actually a novel in verse from Jane Austen's time. I can only gush about how brilliant this is - please do yourself a favor and read it: it's quite short and won't bore you, and has that perfect mixture of heartbreak, humor and wisdom. 

I'm so in love with this. By the way, in case you didn't know: Pushkin was a man of color (his great-grandfather had been black), so if you'd like to read more classics written by people of color then this would be a perfect choice. But also if you simply want to read THE BEST EVER.

Naomi Chapman

THIS BOOK OMG 
'he who has lived as thinking being
within his soul must hold men small
he who can feel is always fleeing
the ghost of days beyond recall
for him enchantment's deep infection
is gone; the snake of recollection'

'ah yes he loved in such a fashion
as men today no longer do
as only poets, mad with passion,
still love...because they're fated to'

'or saddened by the re-emergence
of leaves that perished in the fall
we heed the rustling wood's resurgence
as bitter losses we recall
or do we mark with lamentation
how nature's lively renovation
compares with our own fading youth
for which no spring will come, in truth?'

Eugene Onegin A Novel in Verse

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