1 option
Eugene Onegin : a novel in verse / Alexander Pushkin ; translated by Babette Deutsch ; edited, with a special introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky ; illustrated with lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Heritage Club 34
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837, author.
- Пушкин, Александр Сергеевич, 1799-1837, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Evgeniĭ Onegin. English (Deutsch)
- Евгений Онегин. English (Deutsch)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Onegin, Evgeniĭ (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Onegin, Evgeniĭ.
- Novels in verse.
- Dandies--Russia--Fiction.
- Dandies.
- Apathy--Fiction.
- Apathy.
- Selfishness--Fiction.
- Selfishness.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Russia--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Onegin, Evgeniĭ (Fictitious character).
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Novels in verse.
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Heritage Press, [1943]
- Language Note:
- In English: translated from Russian.
- Summary:
- Lyric poem about a Russian aristocrat who feels empty despite the beauty that surrounds him. Eugene moves to the country and meets Tatyana, an eccentric maiden who falls in love with him. He rejects her and lives to regret it, inciting a fatal duel with his best friend.
- Notes:
- Half title.
- "Copyright, 1943, by the George Macy Companies, Inc."--verso of title page.
- "The present translation was first published in ... 1936 ... under the same editorship as this volume. The text and notes have been revised and augmented for this edition which includes excerpts from 'Onegin's travels' as well as the extant fragment of Chapter Ten"---page xvi.
- Quarter black vellum with pattern illustrated boards. Gilt lettering. Issued in slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.
- OCLC:
- 1834764
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.