Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovskys opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem (consisting of 389 stanzas, the form of which has become known as the Pushkin sonnet) is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to...
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...