Doctor Zhivago
by Pasternak Boris Leonidovich
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Pasternak is best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Due to the novel's independent-minded stance on the socialist state, Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which both humiliated and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were...
Believe to be First American Edition, 1958, stated Twentieth Printing. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari "the Poems of Yurii Zhivago" by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.Book in good condition, grey boards, no yelllowing or soiling, text and colors are vibrant. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. A good copy.
Synopsis
Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor and poet. It tells the story of a man torn between two women, set primarily against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Russian Civil War of 1918–1920. More deeply, the novel discusses the plight of a man as the life that he has always known is dramatically torn apart by forces beyond his control.
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- Title
- Doctor Zhivago
- Author
- Pasternak Boris Leonidovich
- Illustrator
- Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Believe to be First American Edition, stated Twentieth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Date Published
- (1958)
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- FICTION / Classics; FICTION / Historical; Christmas Catalog;
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