{"product_id":"eugene-onegin-by-alexander-pushkin","title":"'Eugene Onegin' by Alexander Pushkin","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"39\" data-end=\"451\"\u003ePushkin’s great novel in verse.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"39\" data-end=\"451\"\u003eEugene Onegin, bored with metropolitan society, inherits a country estate and falls into the orbit of the poet Lensky, the sisters Olga and Tatyana. Through this, he begins on a journey of irreversible errors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"842\"\u003ePushkin is truly a grand master of form. He can pivot from mockery to melancholy to gossip to philosophical aside almost without warning, so the novel feels both formally intricate and extremely alive. Beneath the manners and courtship plot is a book about timing, self-consciousness, boredom and being totally out of phase with your own life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1155\"\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition uses Charles Johnston’s celebrated English verse translation, first published in 1977, with John Bayley’s introduction added in 1979. The translation preserves the novel’s stanzaic form and much of its wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1157\" data-end=\"1520\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1979 or later printing of the 1979 Penguin Classics edition. Paperback. Charles Johnston translation; introduction by John Bayley. Moderate shelf and handling wear, including rubbing, creasing and a small tear\/chip at the upper corner of the front cover. Pages toned but clean; binding sound. Good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50547834126419,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-26T135507.897.png?v=1790394919","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/eugene-onegin-by-alexander-pushkin","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}