«Доктор Живаго» (1945–1955, опубл. 1988) — итоговое произведение Бориса Леонидовича Пастернака (1890–1960), удостоенного за этот роман в 1958 году Нобелевской премии по литературе. Роман, явившийся по собственной оценке автора вершинным его достижением, воплотил в себе пронзительно искренний рассказ о нравственном опыте поколения, к которому принадлежал Б. Л. Пастернак, а также глубокие размышления об исторической судьбе страны.

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.
Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.

Description (From the Publisher):
The Russian Revolution – four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, find love and lose it in this extraordinary time. Their heart-breaking stories make Dr Zhivago one of the greatest romantic books, and films, of the century.
Table Of Contents
Chapter 1 Moscow, 1901
Chapter 2 Summer, 1903
Chapter 3 1905
Chapter 4 January, 1906
Chapter 5 Christmas, 1911
Chapter 6 1915, During World War 1
Chapter 7 Winter, 1916
Chapter 8 1917
Chapter 9 1918
Chapter 10 1919
Chapter 11 1919-21
Chapter 12 Spring, 1922
Chapter 13 Summer, 1929
Chapter 14 Summer, 1943
Activities

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.

Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing in the novel.