Doctor Zhivago

This lovely collector's edition, bound in genuine leather, with gold leaf is on "the 100 best books list." It is printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral. Dr. Zhivago is considered the only truly great novel to come out of post-revolutionary Russia--significantly appearing first in translation, without the approval of the Russian Communist Party censor-ship. It evokes a historically crucial period in terms of a variety of characters whose destinies are interwoven--from the railwaymen, farmers, intellectuals, merchants, lawyers, professors, students, soldiers, the well-to-do and the destitute. This book is crowded with scenes and people of unforgettable impact: the eeriness of partisan camps in the ice and snow of Siberia's primeval forests; the trains crowded with deportees; apartment houses overrun by rats; cities starving and freeing; villages burned and depopulated. Woven into this background is the story of Zhivago's love for tender and beautiful Lara . . .