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Eugene Onegin, Part 1, Part III summary

Part 1, Part III of 368 · 1 min to read the part

In III, Onéguine takes the room associated with his uncle’s forty years of scolding the housekeeper, watching through the window, and killing flies. He opens its cupboards and finds accounts, bottles, cider, and an eight-year-old almanac, giving a concrete picture of his uncle’s domestic life and limited reading.

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  1. Onéguine takes the room where the old man spends forty years in habitual domestic activities.
  2. The narrator describes a plain, spotless room with an oak floor, two cupboards, a table, and a soft divan.
  3. Onéguine opens the cupboards and finds accounts, bottles, jars of cider, and an old almanac.
  4. The narrator remarks that his busy uncle has time for no other reading.

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