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Eugen Onegin
EUGENE ONEGIN By
Alexander Pushkin
Translated by Henry Spalding
CONTENTS:
PREFACE ................................................................................................................... 3 Mon Portrait ................................................................................................................4 A Short Biographical Notice of Alexander Pushkin. ....................................................6 Eugene Oneguine ......................................................................................................11 CANTO THE FIRST.................................................................................................12 CANTO THE SECOND............................................................................................36 CANTO THE THIRD ...............................................................................................53 CANTO THE FOURTH............................................................................................74 CANTO THE FIFTH.................................................................................................90 CANTO THE SIXTH..............................................................................................108 CANTO THE SEVENTH........................................................................................126 CANTO THE EIGHTH...........................................................................................148
PREFACE
Eugene Oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's greatest poet, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I hope that this version may prove an acceptable contribution to literature. Tastes are various in matters of poetry, but the present work possesses a more solid claim to attention in the series of faithful pictures it offers of Russian life and manners. If these be compared with Mr. Wallace's book on Russia, it will be seen that social life in that empire still preserves many

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