Doctor Zhivago
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- London : Vintage Books, 2002.
- 510 pages : 22 cm.
The five-o'clock express -- A girl from a different world -- The Sventitskys' Christmas party -- The hour of the inevitable -- Farewell to the old -- The Moscow encampment -- Train to the Urals -- Arrival -- Varykino -- The highway -- The forest brotherhood -- The rowan tree -- Opposite the house of sculptures -- Return to Varykino -- The poems of Yurii Zhivago.
Comprehensive picture of pre revolutionary upper-class Russian society and the revolutionary transition. Deals with the life of an intellectual and his heroic effort to preserve his capacity for reflection
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