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Doctor Zhivago

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In the early 1900's, Russia was always at war. There was the war with Japan. There was World War I. There was internal civil war with more factions than most people could follow. The people of Russia watched their whole lifestyle change. In less than twenty years the country went from a kingdom to a communist state.

Yurii Zhivago comes of age during this time in Russia. He is from the upper, cultured, class. He is able to complete his primary education and go on to university to become a doctor. He marries his childhood sweetheart, Tonia. They have a son, then he is drafted to be a medic near the front of World War I. He leaves his wife, son, and Moscow and heads west.

There he meets Lara Antipov, a nurse who is married to a soldier who disappears in World War I. She left teaching and became a nurse so she could look for her husband. By the end of the war he is presumed dead. Yurii Zhivago had seen her before, when she was younger, before her marriage. He had been in the background when her mother tried to commit suicide and later when she tries to shoot the man who corrupted her and her mother. Now he discovers she is a strong, capable person. Even so, he is glad to go home to his wife and son when the war is over.

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891.7342 PAS d

Publisher

United Kingdom : Vintage., 2002

Collation

465p; bw; pbk

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780099448426

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891.7342

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Fiction

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