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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
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Description for Doctor Zhivago
Paperback. Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought in him, and is torn between love for his wife and family, and the passionate, beautiful Lara. Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 289 x 2. Weight in Grams: 666.
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. 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 what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. ... Read more
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. 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 what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Vintage Classic Russians Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784871925
SKU
V9781784871925
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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 The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators
New York Review of Books
One of the great events in man's literary and moral history
Edmund Wilson Belongs to that small group of novels ... Read more
V.S. Pritchett The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators
New York Review of Books
One of the great events in man's literary and moral history
Edmund Wilson Belongs to that small group of novels ... Read more