Doctor Zhivago
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the sweeping, blood-soaked canvas of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Doctor Zhivago chronicles the life of Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet torn between his devotion to his family and his passionate, consuming love for the enigmatic Lara Antipova. Boris Pasternak constructs a world of breathtaking scope — from the frozen Ural landscapes to the chaos of Bolshevik Moscow — capturing the brutal collision between the individual soul and the relentless machinery of history. The novel unfolds with the intimacy of a personal diary and the grandeur of an epic, presenting love, art, and survival as acts of quiet but profound resistance against an ideological tide. Pasternak's masterwork, suppressed in the Soviet Union and famously smuggled abroad for its first publication in 1957, stands as one of the defining literary achievements of the twentieth century, earning its author the Nobel Prize in Literature — which he was forced to decline under immense political pressure. Written in luminous, poetic prose, the narrative argues that the human spirit — its capacity for beauty, longing, and creation — endures even as empires and ideologies crumble around it. Pasternak's Zhivago remains one of literature's most indelible heroes, a man who insists on living and feeling deeply in an age determined to extinguish both — leaving the reader to wonder at what cost such fidelity to one's inner life truly comes.
Author: Boris Pasternak
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the sweeping, blood-soaked canvas of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Doctor Zhivago chronicles the life of Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet torn between his devotion to his family and his passionate, consuming love for the enigmatic Lara Antipova. Boris Pasternak constructs a world of breathtaking scope — from the frozen Ural landscapes to the chaos of Bolshevik Moscow — capturing the brutal collision between the individual soul and the relentless machinery of history. The novel unfolds with the intimacy of a personal diary and the grandeur of an epic, presenting love, art, and survival as acts of quiet but profound resistance against an ideological tide. Pasternak's masterwork, suppressed in the Soviet Union and famously smuggled abroad for its first publication in 1957, stands as one of the defining literary achievements of the twentieth century, earning its author the Nobel Prize in Literature — which he was forced to decline under immense political pressure. Written in luminous, poetic prose, the narrative argues that the human spirit — its capacity for beauty, longing, and creation — endures even as empires and ideologies crumble around it. Pasternak's Zhivago remains one of literature's most indelible heroes, a man who insists on living and feeling deeply in an age determined to extinguish both — leaving the reader to wonder at what cost such fidelity to one's inner life truly comes.