{"product_id":"eugene-onegin-a-novel-in-verse-9781783084586","title":"Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e This is essential reading for anyone with a love of Russian literature, because this is where it all began. There is little pre-history to that golden age of 19th century novels. Lomonosov, a fisherman’s son turned scholar, took church Slavonic, peasant Russian, mixed in a few ‘Loan translations’ and gave a French-speaking aristocracy a literary language; Pushkin was the first truly great poet to use it; Yevgeny Onegin is his greatest work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA breath-takingly brilliant tour de force' —Sue Arnold, the Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515968164183,"sku":"9781783084586","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783084586.jpg?v=1745428363","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eugene-onegin-a-novel-in-verse-9781783084586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}