Eugene Onegin
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin, published in instalments in the 1820s and as a complete book in 1833. Onegin, a bored young aristocrat from St Petersburg, inherits a country estate and befriends the poet Lensky. Tatyana, the shy daughter of a neighbouring family, falls in love with Onegin and writes him a letter confessing her feelings, but he rejects her, and a quarrel with Lensky ends in a duel with lasting consequences.
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- Jack Dorsey: “reading Eugene Onegin. Writing a bit”