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First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the 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, Zhivago finds... Read Full Overview

In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught... Read Full Overview

First published in Italy in 1957 amidst international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Here is a masterful chronicle of its outbreak and the consequences: army revolts, irrational... Read Full Overview

?Doktor Zhivago? - itogovoe proizvedenie Borisa Leonidovicha Pasternaka, pisavshijsja na protjazhenii desjati let, i prinesshij emu mirovuju izvestnost' i Nobelevskuju premiju, prisuzhdenie kotoroj obernulos' dlja avtora politicheskoj travlej i stalo prichinoj ego bolezni i konchiny... Read Full Overview

Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.

Owing to the author's independent-minded... Read Full Overview

Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, struggles to sustain his private life amid the collapse of Russia: the Revolution, the civil war, and famine drive him from place to place. Torn between his marriage and his love for Lara, the story shows how politics and violence fracture... Read Full Overview