Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin

First edition of the novel
Author	Alexander Pushkin
Original title	Евгений Онегин
Translator	Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Johnston, James E. Falen, and Walter Arndt.
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Genre	Novel, Verse
Publication date	1825-1832 (in serial) & 1833 (single volume)
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евге́ний Оне́гин, Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.

It is a classic of Russian literature. It was published in parts between 1825 and 1832. The first complete edition was published in 1833, and the currently accepted version is based on the 1837 publication.

Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme "AbAbCCddEffEgg".^[1] This form has come to be known as the "Onegin stanza" or the "Pushkin sonnet."

The story is told by a narrator (a lightly fictionalized version of Pushkin), whose tone is educated, worldly, and intimate. The narrator digresses at times, commenting on aspects of the social and intellectual world. This helps develop the characters and the drama of the plot.

An opera Eugene Onegin by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky has been composed based upon the book.

1. ↑ The uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes.