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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
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Description for Doctor Zhivago
Paperback. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the beautiful nurse Lara. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 356.
TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARI
Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the beautiful nurse Lara.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099448426
SKU
9780099448426
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About Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890 and after briefly training as a composer resolved to be a writer. He published a large number of collections of poetry, written under the burden of Soviet Russia's stringent censorship, before publishing his most famous work, Dr Zhivago, in 1958. This novel won him the Nobel Prize for Literature but the USSR's ... Read more
Reviews for Doctor Zhivago
The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution
V.S. Pritchett One of the great events in man's literary and moral history
Edmund Wilson Belongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged
Frank Kermode
Spectator
Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously ... Read more
V.S. Pritchett One of the great events in man's literary and moral history
Edmund Wilson Belongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged
Frank Kermode
Spectator
Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously ... Read more