Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak

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.

The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution -- VS. 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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781784871925
ISBN 10	1784871923
Title	Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author	Boris Pasternak
Series	Vintage Classic Russians Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2017-01-05
Number of pages	544
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