Doctor Zhivago 1962 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Hardcover Vintage Rare Free Post

Description: Doctor Zhivagoby Boris PasternakTRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARIBanned 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. Publisher DescriptionOn they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing...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 the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.Author BiographyBoris 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.Review"The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution" -- V.S. Pritchett "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 "Clearly a novel by a poet, occasionally messy, sometimes clumsy...yet somehow vastly greater than the sum of its parts" The TimesReview TextThe first work of genius to come out of Russia since the RevolutionReview QuoteThe first work of genius to come out of Russia since the RevolutionPromotional "Headline"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.

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