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...
He was a vicar to die for - and he did! Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue-eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet . . . along with every other female in the village. She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him but the next day Agatha is left with a hangover from hell - and his cold...