Doctor Zhivago.

PASTERNAK, Boris.

Item Number: 4193

London: Collins & Harvill, 1958.

First edition in English. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very nice 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.