Addressing fundamental themes such as the conflicts between art, reality, and social convention, "Eugene Onegin" was the founding text of modern Russian literatureWhen the Romantic and world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St. Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his mild-mannered neighbor, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister OlgaLensky's fianceeOnegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own doing. Marking a clean break from the...
Addressing fundamental themes such as the conflicts between art, reality, and social convention, "Eugene Onegin" was the founding text of modern Russi...
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within... an] erudite and richly entertaining book." --New York Times Book Review "Is there anybody out there?" No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do...
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw]...
