Doctor Zhivago
(New York): Pantheon, (1958).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Topedge slightly soiled, covers lightly rubbed with corners and spine ends bumped, spine sunned, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. Basis for the 1965 David Lean epic which featured Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness. The film won five Oscars, and was nominated for five more, including Best Picture.
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Boris L. Pasternak
birth name: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
born: 2/10/1890
died: 5/30/1960
nationality: USSR
Biography
Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he declined the honor. An epic of wandering, spiritual isolation, and love amid the harshness of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the novel became an international best-seller but circulated only in secrecy and translation in his own land. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore