{"product_id":"yevgeny-onegin-pushkin-collection","title":"Yevgeny Onegin (Pushkin Collection)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe aristocratic Yevgeny Onegin has come into his inheritance  leaving the glamour of St Petersburgs social life behind to take up residence at his uncles country estate. Master of the nonchalant bow  and proof of the fact that we shine despite our lack of education  the aristocratic Onegin is the very model of a social butterfly - a fickle dandy  liked by all for his wit and easy ways. When the shy and passionate Tatyana falls in love with him  Onegin condescendingly rejects her  and instead carelessly diverts himself by flirting with her sister  Olga - with terrible consequences.  Yevgeny Onegin is one of the - if not THE - greatest works of all Russian literature  and certainly the foundational text and Pushkin the foundational writer who influence all those who came after (Tolstoy  Dostoevsky  Chekhov  etc). So its no surprise that this verse novella has drawn so many translators. Its a challenge  too  since verse is always harder to translate than prose. (Vikram Seth  rather than translating Onegin again  updated it to the 1980s in San Franciso in his The Golden Gate). A.D.P. Briggs is arguably the greatest living scholar of Pushkin  certainly in the UK  and as such hes spent a lifetime thinking about how to translate Pushkin. Briggs is an experienced and accomplished translator  not only for Pushkin (Pushkins The Queen of Spades) but for Penguin Classics (War and Peace  The Resurrection) and others. Briggs has not only been thinking about Pushkin for decades  hes been working on this translation for nearly as long. Its a landmark event in the history of Onegin translations and this edition is accompanied by a thoughtful introduction and translators note.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974370684981,"sku":"ByrdShop_1782271910","price":318.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781782271918.jpg?v=1770655984","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yevgeny-onegin-pushkin-collection","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}