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Doctor Zhivago
by PASTERNAK, Boris
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
8vo., publisher's red cloth, 510 pages. From the private Library of D.H. Appleby with a date stamp (approx. 5 cm x 2 cm & reads September 1958) on lightly foxed end papers. A shelving grid type file stamp approx.3 cm x 5 cm on rear of title page. The cover is in excellent condition under a bright dust jacket with very light wear, also a very faint typed year number on spine (1957). A couple of very minor browning marks to closed foredge (hardly noticeable). Doctor Zhivago Collins and Harvill Press 1958 English translation of the 1957 edition. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari . Octavo, 510pp. First edition in English, published one year after its first appearance (in Italian translation) and the same year as the first Russian edition, of Pasternak s sweeping story of political and emotional upheaval in Revolutionary Russia. After years of what he described as his long silent duel with Stalin, Pasternak s main literary concern in the final decades of his life… his testament, a witness to the experience of the Russian intelligentsia before, during and after the Revolution, was Doctor Zhivago (Drabble, 742). Rejected for publication in the Soviet Union, it first appeared in Italian translation in 1957, with a Russian edition published in Italy in 1958. Its publication in English and acclaim in the West, culminating in the award of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Pasternak, unleashed a bitter official Soviet campaign against Pasternak that forced him to decline the prize. In his 1958 New Yorker review, Edmund Wilson called the novel one of the very great books of our time… Doctor Zhivago will, I believe, come to stand as one of the great events in man s literary and moral history. Pasternak died in 1960; no edition of his landmark novel saw print in the Soviet Union until 1987. Italian producer Carlo Ponti later acquired the film rights, and the book was successfully filmed by Sir David Lean in 1965 and starred Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. It went on to win six academy awards and remains one of the top grossing films of all time. The dust wrapper is unusually nice for a trade copy.
Synopsis
Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy by Feltrinelli after being refused publication in the USSR. A French translation was published by Éditions Gallimard in June 1958, and the English translation published in September 1958 by Collins & Harvill, London, and Pantheon in the US. The novel takes its name from the protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor, and poet. It tells the story of a man torn between two women, set primarily against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. More deeply, the novel discusses the plight of a man as the life that he has always known is dramatically torn apart by forces beyond his control. The plot is long and intricate, with the book being well over 500 pages and including many characters that are referenced using various names.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 262
- Title
- Doctor Zhivago
- Author
- PASTERNAK, Boris
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins and Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 510
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Russian Literature
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