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Eugene Onegin

Evgenii Onegin

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Alexander Pushkin, author

Canon Rationale

A core Russian verse novel, included for stanza form, social irony, romanticism, literary self-consciousness, the superfluous-man tradition, and later adaptation.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 105.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Eugene Onegin'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'Eugene Oneguine [Onegin]' by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, translated by Henry Spalding.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read the complete verse novel in Russian or translation. Record the translator and edition.

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