A bored, fashionable young cynic rejects a country girl's earnest love letter, kills his best friend in a needless duel, and years later finds the tables turned. Pushkin's novel in verse.
Books mentioned in Eugene Onegin (1)
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson: “Dreaming herself the heroine Of the romances she preferred, Clarissa, Julia, Delphine,”
Books that mention Eugene Onegin (4)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: “Nights, I spent reading Eugene Onegin”
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: “offers the reading public The Inspector General or, if worse comes to worst, Evgeny Onegin.”
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov: “Mikhail Shpolyansky was dark and clean-shaven... and he looked exactly like Eugene Onegin.”
The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev: “He recollected for some reason Lensky's parting from Olga in _Oniegin_.”