Doctor Zhivago
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its brutal aftermath, Doctor Zhivago chronicles the life of Yuri Zhivago — a physician, poet, and reluctant witness to history — whose passionate love affair with the enigmatic Lara tears him between personal desire and the crushing tide of ideological upheaval. Boris Pasternak's masterwork presents a Russia convulsed by war, civil strife, and Bolshevik terror, rendered with breathtaking intimacy through the eyes of a man who refuses to surrender his humanity to the demands of the collective. Beyond its sweeping romantic narrative, the novel stands as a profound meditation on individuality, artistic freedom, and the cost of moral integrity in an age of totalitarianism. Pasternak — himself a poet of the first order — infuses the prose with a lyrical intensity that elevates historical fiction into something approaching prophecy. Suppressed in the Soviet Union and smuggled abroad for publication, Doctor Zhivago earned its author the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which he was forced to decline under state pressure. Its final pages, left quietly open, ask whether beauty and love can endure when history demands otherwise.
Author: Boris Pasternak
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Collins and Harvill Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its brutal aftermath, Doctor Zhivago chronicles the life of Yuri Zhivago — a physician, poet, and reluctant witness to history — whose passionate love affair with the enigmatic Lara tears him between personal desire and the crushing tide of ideological upheaval. Boris Pasternak's masterwork presents a Russia convulsed by war, civil strife, and Bolshevik terror, rendered with breathtaking intimacy through the eyes of a man who refuses to surrender his humanity to the demands of the collective. Beyond its sweeping romantic narrative, the novel stands as a profound meditation on individuality, artistic freedom, and the cost of moral integrity in an age of totalitarianism. Pasternak — himself a poet of the first order — infuses the prose with a lyrical intensity that elevates historical fiction into something approaching prophecy. Suppressed in the Soviet Union and smuggled abroad for publication, Doctor Zhivago earned its author the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which he was forced to decline under state pressure. Its final pages, left quietly open, ask whether beauty and love can endure when history demands otherwise.