Verse novel · 1881

Eugene Onéguine

A Romance of Russian Life in Verse

by Alexander Pushkin

Translated by Henry Spalding (1881)

Pushkin's verse novel of the bored St Petersburg dandy Onegin, the provincial girl Tatiana who loves him, and the duel that kills his friend Lensky.

Contents · 8 parts

• Canto I: The Spleenabout 760 lines
• Canto II: The Poetabout 560 lines
• Canto III: The Country Damselabout 700 lines
• Canto IV: Rural Lifeabout 570 lines
• Canto V: The Fêteabout 620 lines
• Canto VI: The Duelabout 620 lines
• Canto VII: Moscowabout 740 lines
• Canto VIII: The Great Worldabout 760 lines

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