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Doctor Zhivago

Introdcution by John Bayley

By Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Boris Pasternak
Introduction by John Bayley
Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari

By Boris Pasternak
Introduction by John Bayley
Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari

By Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Boris Pasternak
Read by John Lee
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Boris Pasternak
Read by John Lee
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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Oct 04, 2011 | ISBN 9780307390950

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Nov 26, 1991 | ISBN 9780679407591

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Nov 23, 2010 | ISBN 9780307379962

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    About Doctor Zhivago

    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 himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak’s original—his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.

    About Doctor Zhivago

     

    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 up in the great events of politics and war that eventually destroy him and millions of others, Zhivago clings to the private world of family life and love, embodied especially in the magical Lara.

     

    First published in Italy in 1957, Doctor Zhivago was not allowed to appear in the Soviet Union until 1987, twenty-seven years after the author’s death.

     

    Translated by Manya Harari and Max Hayward

    About Doctor Zhivago

    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 himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak’s original—his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.

    About Doctor Zhivago

    Boris Pasternak’s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, “the English-speaking world is indebted.”
     
    First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy—the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authorities—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 himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.
     
    Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternak’s original—resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translators’ note, this edition of Doctor Zhivago is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.

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    About Boris Pasternak

    A poet, translator, and novelist, Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but, facing threats from Soviet authorities, refused the prize. He lived in virtual exile in an artists’… More about Boris Pasternak

    About Boris Pasternak

    A poet, translator, and novelist, Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but, facing threats from Soviet authorities, refused the prize. He lived in virtual exile in an artists’… More about Boris Pasternak

    About Boris Pasternak

    A poet, translator, and novelist, Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but, facing threats from Soviet authorities, refused the prize. He lived in virtual exile in an artists’… More about Boris Pasternak

    About Boris Pasternak

    A poet, translator, and novelist, Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow in 1890. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but, facing threats from Soviet authorities, refused the prize. He lived in virtual exile in an artists’… More about Boris Pasternak

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Military Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 04, 2011 | 704 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307390950

    Category: Historical Fiction | Fiction Classics | Military Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Nov 26, 1991 | 648 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679407591

    Category: Literary Fiction | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 23, 2010 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9780307379962

    Category: Literary Fiction | Military Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $32.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jun 14, 2011 | 1399 Minutes | ISBN 9780307934376
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    A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

    “One of the very great books of our time.” —The New Yorker

    “Pevear and Volokhonsky have done a masterly job translating what ought to be considered the definitive English edition of Doctor Zhivago.” —The New Criterion

    “A welcome opportunity for anyone who has already read Dr. Zhivago to revisit it and experience a richly rewarding fresh take on an epic tale. For those coming to it for the first time it is a chance to read one of the greatest novels of all times.” —New York Journal of Books
     
    “As well as a gripping story, Doctor Zhivago is a work of meditation and quiet challenge.  Pasternak meant every word of it.  I believe he would be pleased with the powerful fidelity of the translation now before us.” —Angela Livingstone, The Times Literary Supplement (London)

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1958

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