Eugene Onegin
Pushkin's central and most representative work: a complete novel in verse combining narrative, lyric poetry, social observation, and literary experimentation.
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Alexander Pushkin Books in Order
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and prose writer whose work established the foundations of modern Russian literary language. His major works include the verse novel Eugene Onegin, the narrative poems Ruslan and Ludmila and The Bronze Horseman, the historical drama Boris Godunov, the prose collection Tales of Belkin, and the novel The Captain's Daughter.
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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
A concise, accessible entry point to Pushkin's prose and his development of Russian literary realism.
The Captain's Daughter
A complete historical novel that brings together Pushkin's narrative prose, historical interests, and mature style.
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Novels (7)
- The Moor of Peter the Great
unfinished-novel · 1837
- A Novel in Letters
unfinished-novel · 1857
- The Captain's Daughter
historical-novel · 1836
- Roslavlev
unfinished-novel · 1836
- Dubrovsky
unfinished-novel · 1841
- The Story of the Village of Goryukhino
unfinished-novella · 1837
- The Egyptian Nights
unfinished-novella · 1837
Nonfiction (3)
- A History of Pugachev
history · 1834
- A Journey to Arzrum
travel-writing · 1836
- History of Peter the Great
unfinished-history · 1837
Short fiction (1)
- Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
short-story-collection · 1831
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people. First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains…
Poetry (24)
- Ruslan and Ludmila
narrative-poem · 1820
- The Prisoner of the Caucasus
narrative-poem · 1822
- The Gabrieliad
narrative-poem · 1861
- Vadim
unfinished-narrative-poem · 1827
- The Robber Brothers
narrative-poem · 1825
- The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
narrative-poem · 1824
- The Gypsies
narrative-poem · 1827
- Count Nulin
narrative-poem · 1827
- Poltava
narrative-poem · 1829
- Tazit
unfinished-narrative-poem · 1837
- The Little House in Kolomna
narrative-poem · 1833
- Eugene Onegin
novel-in-verse · 1825
Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евге́ний Оне́гин, BGN/PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian…
- Ezersky
unfinished-narrative-poem · 1837
- Angelo
narrative-poem · 1834
- The Bronze Horseman
narrative-poem · 1837
- Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1858
- The Bridegroom
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1827
- The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1840
- The Tale of the Female Bear
unfinished-fairy-tale-in-verse · 1855
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1832
Betrayed by her jealous sisters, a Tsarina and her infant son are marooned on a barren island until a magical swan helps them regain their rightful heritage.
- The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1835
- The Tale of the Dead Princess
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1834
- The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
fairy-tale-in-verse · 1835
- Poems of Alexander Pushkin
poetry-collection · 1826
Plays (4)
- Boris Godunov
historical-play · 1831
- Little Tragedies
play-collection · 1839
- Scenes from the Times of Chivalry
unfinished-play · 1837
- Rusalka
unfinished-play · 1837