Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari (PT33)

Published 1958: First UK Edition, 10th Impression / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original red cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 510 very clean and bright pages, speckled foxing on the top edge. Dust jacket slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. A scarce edition! (PT33)

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This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.

Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel. Google Books.