Dr. Zhivago (Book) is an epic novel by Russian poet and writer Boris Leonidovich Pasternak. The novel follows the romance between Yuri Zhivago and Larissa Antipova amid the social upheavals during and after the Russian Revolution. Complex and multi-faceted, Doctor Zhivago is more than a great tragic love story or a panoramic social and political chronicle. It is a novel deeply imbued with humanism and poetic vision.

1. Rejected by Soviet publishers in 1956
2. Published in 1957, in both Russian and Italian, in Milan, Italy
3. First English translation published in 1958
4. Nobel Prize awarded to Pasternak in 1958
5. Topped The New York Times Best Sellers List for 26 weeks in 1958 and 1959
6. Officially published in Soviet Union in 1988
7. Quotation: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

Dr. Zhivago (Book) is an epic novel by Russian poet and writer Boris Leonidovich Pasternak. The novel follows the romance between Yuri Zhivago and Larissa Antipova amid the social upheavals during and after the Russian Revolution. Complex and multi-faceted, Doctor Zhivago is more than a great tragic love story or a panoramic social and political chronicle. It is a novel deeply imbued with humanism and poetic vision.

1. Rejected by Soviet publishers in 1956

2. Published in 1957, in both Russian and Italian, in Milan, Italy

3. First English translation published in 1958

4. Nobel Prize awarded to Pasternak in 1958

5. Topped The New York Times Best Sellers List for 26 weeks in 1958 and 1959

6. Officially published in Soviet Union in 1988

7. Quotation: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

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• • The links are to IMDb, which has pop-ups
• 2006: Doktor Zhivago (Mini TV Series)
• 2002: Doctor Zhivagi (TV)
• 1965: Doctor Zhivago
• 1959: Doutor Jivago