Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse [Four Volume Set]

  • London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964
By Aleksandr Pushkin; Vladimir Nabokov [trans.]
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. Very Good. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1964]. First Edition. Four volumes; octavos; publisher's pale blue cloth, red and gilt spine titling; portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Spines sunned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of Vol. IV; overall a Very Good set, albeit lacking the original dust jackets.

One of the masterpieces of literary translation greatly enhanced by Nabokov's extensive and comic commentary, described by his biographer Brian Boyd as "the most detailed commentary ever made on [Onegin].

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