PASTERNAK, Boris.

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Doctor Zhivago. First edition in English of Pasternak's classic novel.The original manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1957 and first published in Italy later that year. It was an immediate success and has been adapted for the screen several times, most famously in the 1965 film starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Alec Guinness. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year this edition was published.

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