Stephen Fry narrates free Eugene Onegin audiobook

Stephen Fry has narrated an audio version of Eugene Onegin, a novel written in verse, in collaboration with Moscow-based tech and innovation hub, Digital October. The audiobook is available to download for free here.

In a tweet yesterday, Fry described the book by Alexander Pushkin as “one of the greatest works of mankind”. Since 1881, the novel, which is about a St Petersburg dandy in his twenties, has been translated into English more than 40 times, including by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.