This work's two epigraphs are quotes from Mailfitre and Horace, and at multiple points its author compares the hero to Byron's Childe Harold.
This work's two epigraphs are quotes from Mailfitre and Horace, and at multiple points its author compares the hero to Byron's Childe Harold. The main character wakes at seven to bathe in a stream everyday in this work, in which a girl walks into his abandoned mansion to peruse through the books of the title character to learn his true nature. The protagonist rejects a rural woman only to beg for her hand later as she becomes a "princess of the Neva." The title character's flirtations with another Tarina sister force him to name his servant Guillot as his second during his duel with Zaretsky and Olga's lover Lensky. For 10 points, name this work where Tatyana is rebuffed, a Russian verse novel by Alexander Pushkin.
This work's two epigraphs are quotes from Mailfitre and Horace, and at multiple points its author compares the hero to Byron's Childe Harold.
Eugene Onegin [or Yevgeniy Onegin]