Doctor Zhivago.
PASTERNAK, Boris.
Doctor Zhivago.
“I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom": First Edition in English of Boris Pasternak's Masterpiece Doctor Zhivago
London: Collins & Harvill, 1958.
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First edition in English of the work which garnered Pasternak the Nobel Prize in literature. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Woodcock. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. A superior example of this literary highspot.
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." It was not allowed to appear in the Soviet Union until 1987, twenty-seven years after the author’s death. The novel was made into a film by David Lean in 1965, and since then has twice been adapted for television, most recently as a miniseries for Russian TV in 2006.
