Doctor Zhivago
The Russian Revolution forms the background to this beautiful but heartbreaking tale of four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, who find love only to lose it again in tragic circumstances. A classic love story, Dr Zhivago remains one of the best-loved romantic books of the century. It was also beautifully filmed with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in the leading roles.
Review
"The best way to understand Pasternak's achievement in Doctor Zhivago is to see it in terms of this great Russian literary tradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil as of opposing forces and needs in human destiny and history that can never be reconciled . . . [Zhivago is] a figure who embodies the principle of life itself, the principle that contradicts every abstraction of revolutionary politics."
—from the Introduction by John Bayley
- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0006497071
- ISBN-13: 978-0006497073
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
