Evgenii Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
Evgenii Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
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Evgenii Onegin

Author: Alexander Pushkin

Narrator: Neville Jason

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/30/2012


Synopsis

Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to later experience the pain of rejection himself. Pushkin’s unique style proves timeless in its exploration of love, life, passion, jealousy and the consequences of social convention. This is the first time the work has appeared on audiobook and is part of the Naxos AudioBooks intention to make the major European literary works available on audiobook.

Reviews

“But even while his eyes were reading, His thoughts were far away, as old Desires, dreams, sorrows kept invading And crowding deep inside his soul. Between the lines before him, printed His inward eye saw others hinted. On these he concentrated most, In their decipherment engrossed. These were the secret le......more