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The Golden Gate (novel) - Definition |
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The Golden Gate (ISBN 0394549740) is Vikram Seth's first novel. Set in the 1980s, it follows the lives of a group of yuppies in San Francisco.
Published in 1986, it was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of the Pushkin's 1833 Russian classic, Eugene Onegin. The Golden Gate is a novel in verse composed of 690 Onegin stanzas (sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the unusual ababccddeffegg pattern of Eugene Onegin).
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