Description |
xxviii, 675 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
"A novel"--Cover. |
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"This translation was originally published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2010"--T.p. verso. |
Summary |
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, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the White Army and the Bolshevik Reds of the Russian civil war. 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. |
Language |
Translated from the Russian. |
Subject |
Physicians -- Fiction.
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Poets, Russian -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Political fiction.
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Epic poetry.
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Historical fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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Didactic fiction.
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Added Author |
Pevear, Richard, 1943-
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Volokhonsky, Larissa.
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Added Title |
Doktor Zhivago. English.
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ISBN |
9780307390950 (pbk.) |
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0307390950 (pbk.) |
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