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Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

By Boris Pasternak
Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and follows the life of Yuri Zhivago, a poet and physician. The novel explores the tumultuous changes in Russia through Yuri's personal and romantic experiences, highlighting his struggle to find balance between his scientific pursuits, his love for two women, and the socio-political upheavals occurring around him. It's a poignant exploration of the impact of historical change on individual lives.
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You might enjoy this powerful Russian classic if you're drawn to stories that intertwine personal and political drama. Its rich tapestry of love, loss, and the struggle for identity set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution offers a profound exploration of human endurance and passion. This novel is perfect for readers who appreciate intense emotional journeys and historical settings.

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Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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 Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

Read this stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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.

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series

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Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago is hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, celebrated for its profound exploration of love and morality. Praised by critics like V.S. Pritchett and Edmund Wilson, it has been deemed a landmark in literary history. Its translations have also been highly regarded, and the work is often compared to the greatest of Shakespeare's explorations of love.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784871925

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Richard Pevear
  • Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky
  • Translated by Richard Pevear
  • Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky
  • Translated by Richard Pevear
  • Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 610g

Pages: 544

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Boris Pasternak Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series

About the Author

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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