• Title: Eugene Onegin
• Author: Pushkin
• Genre/Subject: Russian verse drama
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1833
• Start date: 8/30/2021
• Finish date: 9/1/2021

Review:

My goal in reading this was to simply get through it, and hopefully to gain a better understanding of the Tchaikovsky opera of the same name.

But this was good. Really good. Being a verse novel it is broken up into 8 cantos, composed of around 50 stanzas of 14 rhyming lines. At first this seems awkward and a little confusing, but once you get into the flow of it, then it becomes very absorbing.

You don’t get the deep character development like you would in a novel (prose) but you retain the impressions better.

A masterpiece, really worth the effort to read it through to the end.