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Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
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Description for Dr Zhivago
Hardcover. In the tradition of the Russian epic novel from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn, this book tells the story of Yury Zhivago, his women and his poems, against the background of the Russian Revolution. Caught up in the events of politics and war, Zhivago clings to his own private world of family and love. Translator(s): Hayward, M.; Harari, M. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 680.
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 the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.
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 the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857150414
SKU
V9781857150414
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About Boris Pasternak
A Russian poet, whose novel DOKTOR ZHIVAGO brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Though Pasternak was not a political writer, the award brought him brought him into the spotlight of international politics and he had to decline the honour. The novel was banned in the Soviet Union and Pasternak was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. ... Read more
Reviews for Dr Zhivago
The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for ... Read more