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Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago By Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak


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Summary

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.

Doctor Zhivago Summary

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms, tone, precision, and poetry of Pasternak's original, bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers.

Doctor Zhivago Reviews

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 by which all others are ultimately judged -- Frank Kermode * Spectator *
Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously and directly communicated -- Isaiah Berlin * Sunday Times *

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 hostility to the West meant he was forced to turn it down. He died in 1960.

Additional information

GOR003364056
9780099541240
0099541246
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2011-09-01
544
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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