Doctor Zhivago (The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century)

568 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. Also includes The Poems of Yurii Zhivago, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.