Doctor Zhivago
$29.62
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2002
Summary
One of the 20th century’s must-read novels - a love story set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, told in prose so lyrical it is on the brink of becoming poetry.
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 f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099448426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099448424 |
| Author: | Boris Pasternak |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 359g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classic Russians Series |
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Critics Review
The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution
The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution – V.S. PritchettOne of the great events in man’s literary and moral history – Edmund WilsonBelongs 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 The Author
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.
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