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| doctor zhivago summary: The Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott, 2020-06-30 A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF FICTION IN 2019 AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2019 A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops and invisibly ferry classified documents. The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story--the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara--with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak's country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag, from Washington, DC, to Paris and Milan, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature--told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the centre of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Zhivago Affair Peter Finn, Petra Couvée, 2014-06-17 Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia’s greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak’s first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.” Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But he thought it stood a chance in the West and, indeed, beginning in Italy, Doctor Zhivago was widely published in translation throughout the world. From there the life of this extraordinary book entered the realm of the spy novel. The CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published a Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. Copies were devoured in Moscow and Leningrad, sold on the black market, and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak’s funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell. The example he set launched the great tradition of the writer-dissident in the Soviet Union. In The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency’s involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War—to a time when literature had the power to stir the world. (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.) |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Poems of Dr. Zhivago Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1965 |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Odyssey of Love Paul Krause, 2021-07-08 Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Lara Anna Pasternak, 2017-01-24 The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya—the true tragedy behind the timeless classic, and a harrowing look at how the Russian government has treated dissidents When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak—whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet—he persecuted Boris’s mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris’s affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga’s role in Boris’s writing process. Twice Olga was sentenced to work in Siberian labor camps, where she was interrogated about the book Boris was writing, but she refused to betray the man she loved. When Olga was released from the gulags, she assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her but, trapped by his family’s expectations and his own weak will, he never did. Drawing on previously neglected family sources and original interviews, Anna Pasternak explores this hidden act of moral compromise by her great-uncle, and restores to history the passionate affair that inspired and animated Doctor Zhivago. Devastated that Olga suffered on his behalf and frustrated that he could not match her loyalty to him, Boris instead channeled his thwarted passion for Olga into the love story in Doctor Zhivago. Filled with the rich detail of Boris’s secret life, Lara unearths a moving love story of courage, loyalty, suffering, drama, and loss, and casts a new light on the legacy of Doctor Zhivago. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason, 2018-09-11 The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever. From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone. The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success. —Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review |
| doctor zhivago summary: My Sister Life and The Zhivago Poems Boris Pasternak, 2012-04-30 Includes the poems written by Iurii Zhivago (a character in the novel, Doktor Zhivago) |
| doctor zhivago summary: A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway, 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z ''A Farewell to Arms'' is Hemingway's classic set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant (Tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. It's about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ''A Farewell to Arms'' cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Little Russian Susan Sherman, 2012-01-01 From an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The Little Russian tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow—a life filled with salons, balls and all the trappings of the upper class—very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the Jewish townlet of Mosny. So when a mysterious and cultured wheat merchant walks into the grocery, Berta's life is forever altered. She falls in love, unaware that he is a member of the Bund, The Jewish Worker's League, smuggling arms to the shtetls to defend them against the pogroms sweeping the Little Russian countryside. Married and established in the wheat center of Cherkast, Berta has recaptured the life she once had in Moscow. So when a smuggling operation goes awry and her husband must flee the country, Berta makes the vain and foolish choice to stay behind with her children and her finery. As Russia plunges into war, Berta eventually loses everything and must find a new way to sustain the lives and safety of her children. Filled with heart–stopping action, richly drawn characters, and a world seeped in war and violence; The Little Russian is poised to capture readers as one of the hand–selling gems of the season. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Zhivago's Children Vladislav Martinovich Zubok, Vladislav Zubok, 2011-11-30 This is an in-depth history of the cultural and intellectual evolution of the intelligentsia in Russia from Stalin's death in 1953 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Still Here Lara Vapnyar, 2017-05-02 A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls Jane Austen with a Russian soul In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age. Vica, Vadik, Sergey and Regina met in Russia in their school days, but remained in touch and now have very different American lives. Sergey cycles through jobs as an analyst, hoping his idea for an app will finally bring him success. His wife Vica, a medical technician struggling to keep her family afloat, hungers for a better life. Sergey’s former girlfriend Regina, once a famous translator is married to a wealthy startup owner, spends her days at home grieving over a recent loss. Sergey’s best friend Vadik, a programmer ever in search of perfection, keeps trying on different women and different neighborhoods, all while pining for the one who got away. As Sergey develops his app—calling it Virtual Grave, a program to preserve a person's online presence after death—a formidable debate begins in the group, spurring questions about the changing perception of death in the modern world and the future of our virtual selves. How do our online personas define us in our daily lives, and what will they say about us when we're gone? — New York Times Book Review, 100 Notable Books of 2016 |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Expected One Kathleen McGowan, 2007-07-03 Biblical dreams and visions plague American Maureen Paschal. When she travels to France, she finds what has eluded centuries of treasure hunters--the original Magdalene scrolls that detail her love affair with Jesus, their marriage, and the crucifixion. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Lara's Gift Annemarie O'Brien, 2014-07-22 In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has a special bond with the dogs. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Into the Wild Jon Krakauer, 2024-02-08 Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence. Just four months later, Chris was found dead. An SOS note was taped to his makeshift home, an abandoned bus. In piecing together the final travels of this extraordinary young man's life, Jon Krakauer writes about the heart of the wilderness, its terribly beauty and its relentless harshness. Into the Wild is a modern classic of travel writing, and a riveting exploration of what drives some of us to risk more than we can afford to lose. From the author of Under the Banner of Heaven and Into Thin Air. A film adaptation of Into the Wild was directed by Sean Penn and starred Emile Hirsch and Kristen Stewart. 'It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.' - Entertainment Weekly |
| doctor zhivago summary: Everything Flows Vasily Grossman, 2010-05-05 A New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan’s story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan’s cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants. Here Everything Flows attains an unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante’s Inferno. |
| doctor zhivago summary: A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul, 2018-08-21 In the brilliant novel (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. |
| doctor zhivago summary: People's Act Of Love James Meek, 2010-06-29 Praised in over a dozen countries around the world, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and distinguished as a national bestseller, The People’s Act of Love has been compared to the works of such Russian masters as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. In a Siberian town caught between a zealous cult and bullying soldiers, a stranger named Samarin arrives. Claiming to be an escapee from an isolated prison camp, pursued in his flight by a bloodthirsty cannibal, he unleashes a storm of suspicion and terror. The People’s Act of Love is an epic drama of desire and sacrifice, full of hot blood and magnetic characters, played out against one of the most remote landscapes on earth. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Katherine Anya Seton, 2013 John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Someone Named Eva Joan M. Wolf, 2009 In 1942, blonde and blue-eyed Milada is taken from her home in Czechoslovakia to a school in Poland to be trained as a proper German for adoption by a German family, but all the while she remembers her true name and history. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Lives of the Monster Dogs Kirsten Bakis, 2017-05-09 The twentieth anniversary of a postmodern classic, blending the gothic novel with bleeding-edge science fiction After a century of cruel experimentation, a haunted race of genetically and biomechanically uplifted canines are created by the followers of a mad nineteenth-century Prussian surgeon. Possessing human intelligence, speaking human language, fitted with prosthetic hands, and walking upright on their hind legs, the monster dogs are intended to be super soldiers. Rebelling against their masters, however, and plundering the isolated village where they were created, the now wealthy dogs make their way to New York, where they befriend the young NYU student Cleo Pira and—acting like Victorian aristocrats—become reluctant celebrities. Unable to reproduce, doomed to watch their race become extinct, the highly cultured dogs want no more than to live in peace and be accepted by contemporary society. Little do they suspect, however, that the real tragedy of their brief existence is only now beginning. Told through a variety of documents—diaries, newspaper clippings, articles for Vanity Fair, and even a portion of an opera libretto—Kirsten Bakis’s Lives of the Monster Dogs uses its science-fictional premise to launch a surprisingly emotional exploration of the great themes: love, death, and the limits of compassion. A contemporary classic, this edition features a new introduction by Jeff VanderMeer. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Russian Literature Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky, 2013-05-08 For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry from the eighteenth century to the present, are almost completely terra incognita, as are the complex prose experiments of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, Andrei Belyi, and Andrei Platonov. Furthermore, those writers who have made an impact are generally known outside of the contexts in which they wrote and in which their work has been received. In this engaging book, Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky provide a comprehensive, conceptually challenging history of Russian literature, including prose, poetry and drama. Each of the ten chapters deals with a bounded time period from medieval Russia to the present. In a number of cases, chapters overlap chronologically, thereby allowing a given period to be seen in more than one context. To tell the story of each period, the authors provide an introductory essay touching on the highpoints of its development and then concentrate on one biography, one literary or cultural event, and one literary work, which serve as prisms through which the main outlines of a given period?s development can be discerned. Although the focus is on literature, individual works, lives and events are placed in broad historical context as well as in the framework of parallel developments in Russian art and music. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Gum Thief Douglas Coupland, 2009-03-18 The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore. In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious novel—sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf—we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for the rest of his life. And then there’s Roger’s co-worker Bethany, who’s at the end of her Goth phase, and young enough to be looking at fifty more years of sorting the red pens from the blue in Aisle Six. One day, Bethany comes across Roger’s notebook in the staff room. When she opens it up, she discovers that this old guy she’s never considered as quite human is writing mock diary entries pretending to be her—and spookily, he is getting her right. She also learns he has a tragedy in his past—and suddenly he no longer seems like just a paper-stocking robot with a name tag. These two retail workers strike up a peculiar and touching epistolary relationship, reminding us that love, death and eternal friendship can all transpire where we least expect them. Through a complex layering of narratives, The Gum Thief highlights number-one bestselling author Douglas Coupland’s eye for the comedy, loneliness and strange comforts of contemporary life. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Mr. Murder Dean Koontz, 2006-07-05 #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a gripping novel of a man accused of stealing not just someone’s identity, but his entire life... A big house. A beautiful wife. Two happy and healthy children. It’s a nice life that writer Martin Stillwater has made for himself. But he can’t shake this feeling of impending disaster. One bad moment on an otherwise fine day has put Marty on a collision course with a killer—a man with a mere shadow of an identity who is desperately searching for something more... Martin’s home. Martin’s family. Martin’s life. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Master & Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov, 2016-03-22 Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, “a classic of twentieth-century fiction” (The New York Times). In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union a visit. In old Jerusalem, the fateful meeting of Pilate and Yeshua and the murder of Judas in the garden of Gethsemane unfold. At the intersection of fantasy and realism, satire and unflinching emotional truths, Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic The Master and Margarita eloquently lampoons every aspect of Soviet life under Stalin’s regime, from politics to art to religion, while interrogating the complexities between good and evil, innocence and guilt, and freedom and oppression. Spanning from Moscow to Biblical Jerusalem, a vibrant cast of characters—a “magician” who is actually the devil in disguise, a giant cat, a witch, a fanged assassin—sow mayhem and madness wherever they go, mocking artists, intellectuals, and politicians alike. In and out of the fray weaves a man known only as the Master, a writer demoralized by government censorship, and his mysterious lover, Margarita. Burned in 1928 by the author and restarted in 1930, The Master and Margarita was Bulgakov’s last completed creative work before his death. It remained unpublished until 1966—and went on to become one of the most well-regarded works of Russian literature of the twentieth century, adapted or referenced in film, television, radio, comic strips, theater productions, music, and opera. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Conspiracy (The Plot to Kill Hitler #1) Andy Marino, 2020-04-21 Based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters, this heart-pounding trilogy puts two courageous kids at the center of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Berlin, November 1943. With bombing raids commencing, the city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the air raid sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl Hoffmann, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save the man's life. Before he dies, the stranger gives their father a bloodstained packet of documents, along with a message: For the sake of humanity, the Führer must die. Finish it, Karl! Based on real events, this is the story of two children swept up in a fight for the soul of Germany -- and the world. |
| doctor zhivago summary: How to Kill Your Family Bella Mackie, 2021-07-22 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN ‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES ‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH |
| doctor zhivago summary: Assignment Russia Marvin Kalb, 2021-04-13 A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news. Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from Murrow himself to Eric Severeid, Howard K. Smith, Richard Hottelet, Charles Kuralt, and Daniel Schorr among many others. He finds himself assigned as Moscow correspondent of CBS News just as the U2 incident—the downing of a US spy plane over Russian territory—is unfolding. As readers of his first volume, The Year I Was Peter the Great, will recall, being the right person, in the right place, at the right time found Kalb face to face with Khrushchev. Assignment Russia sees Kalb once again an eyewitness to history—and a writer and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Fort Bernard Cornwell, 2010-09-30 ‘Captivate, kill or destroy the whole force of the enemy’ was the order given to the American soldiers. THE FORT is the blistering novel from worldwide bestseller Bernard Cornwell. |
| doctor zhivago summary: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country Ken Kalfus, 2007 In this withering satire of American life, Marshall and Joyce are conducting a scorched-earth divorce campaign against each other. On the grim day when New York City is overcome with grief and shock, each thinks the other is dead, and each is visited by an intense, secret, guilty satisfaction. Both survive only to continue their fighting. |
| doctor zhivago summary: And Quiet Flows the Don Михаил Александрович Шолохов, 1999 |
| doctor zhivago summary: Boys in Zinc Svetlana Aleksievich, 2017 From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors and nurses, mothers, wives and siblings who describe the lasting effects of war. Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict- the killing and the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returning veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy because of its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war. |
| doctor zhivago summary: One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 2014-03-06 ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE _______________________________ 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice' Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. _______________________________ 'As steamy, dense and sensual as the jungle that surrounds the surreal town of Macondo!' Oprah, Featured in Oprah's Book Club 'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times 'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson 'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Golden Wolf Linnea Hartsuyker, 2019-08-01 The fates of Ragnvald and his sister Svanhild unfold to their stunning conclusion in this riveting final volume in The Golden Wolf Saga, a trilogy that conjures the ancient world with the gripping detail, thrilling action, and vivid historical elements of Game of Thrones and Outlander. Ragnvald has long held to his vision of King Harald as a golden wolf who will bring peace to Norway as its conqueror - even though he knows that Harald's success will eventually mean his own doom. He is grateful to have his beloved sister, the fierce and independent Svanhild, once more at his side to help keep their kingdom secure. Free from the evil husband who used her, she is now one of Harald's many wives. While Svanhold is happy to be reunited with her beloved brother, and enjoys more freedom than ever before, she is restless and lonely. When an old enemy of Ragnvald's kidnaps his niece, Freydis, his sister follows the daughter she has neglected to Iceland, where an old love awaits. This strange new land offers a life far different from what each has left behind, as well as unexpected challenges and choices. Ragnvald, too, must contend with change. His sons - the gifted Einar, the princely Ivar, and the adventurous Rolli - are no longer children. Harald's heirs have also grown up. Stepping back from his duties as king, he watches as his sons pursue their own ambitions. But Norway may no longer be large enough for so many would-be kings. Now in their twilight years, these venerable men whose lives have been shaped by war must face another battle. A growing rebellion pits Ragnvald and his sons against enemies old and new, and a looming tragedy threatens to divide them all. Across the sea, Svanhild, too, wrestles with a painful decision, risking the dissolution of her fragile new family as she desperately tries to save it. Yet as old heroes fall, new heroes arise. For years, Ragnvald and Svanhild pursued the destinies bestowed by their ancient gods. Though the journey has cost them much, their sacrifices and dreams will be honoured by the generations that follow, beginning with Freydis and Einar. Emerging from their parents' long shadows, they have begun to pursue their own glorious fates. This compelling conclusion to the Golden Wolf trilogy recreates Viking-age Scandinavia in all its danger, passion, power, and glory - a world of brutality and myth, loyalty and betrayal, where shifting alliances and vengeance can build kingdoms . . . and can tear them down. |
| doctor zhivago summary: The Twentieth-century Russian Novel David Gillespie, 1996 Eight of Russia's most popular and significant novels are presented in this important new guide for students. Works include: - We by Evgenii Zamiatin - Red Cavalry by Isaak Babel - Envy by Iurii Olesha - How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovskii - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov In each chapter, David Gillespie examines one novel in detail and explores the career of the author and the critical reception of the work. Throughout, considerable reference is made to recently published scholarship and archival materials to provide students and scholars of Russian and Comparative Literature with a guide to these important Russian authors and their place in the world of literature. The book also includes an extensive bibliography of secondary literature and contains textual references in both the original Russian and in English translation. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Senior Service Carlo Feltrinelli, 2001 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was the most glamorous international publisher of his generation. A member of an ultra-left group, his death was the result of a botched terrorist attempt. In this work, his son reflects on his life. |
| doctor zhivago summary: Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective Alexander Gerschenkron, 1965 |
| doctor zhivago summary: A Study Guide for Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015-09-15 A Study Guide for Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs. |
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中古英语受法语影响，通常用medicine表示医生。大概从15世纪开始直到16世纪，Doctor of Medicine的缩写doctor逐渐成为主流用法。其中，表达法doctor of phesike（doctor of physic） …
哲学博士（Ph.D） 科学博士（D.Sc.）有什么区别？ - 知乎
通俗说一下，在美国，所有的专业在最高级别的博士学位（同一水平）有叫法有两种，一个是 Ph.D. ，全称 A Doctor of Philosophy ，也就是哲学博士，且所有专业的哲学博士都可以叫Ph.D. …
phd和Doctor有什么区别 - 知乎
Doctor是博士称号。PhD是Doctorate博士文凭的一种，是Doctor of philosophy 的简写，也就是哲学博士。 再举个例子。EngD也是Doctorate的一种，是Doctor of engineering的简写，也就是 …
Prof. Dr. 与 Prof.有什么区别？ - 知乎
Dr.是doctor的简写，即博士（最高学位。且必须是取得该头衔后才能称呼。在读博士是 Doctoral Candidate）。 by the way：博士后不是学位的一种，只是在某处工作的博士的类职称而已。 …
为什么博士叫PhD？ - 知乎
博士（Doctor）学位意味着能独立完成研究任务。 （科学网-博士究竟和硕士有何不同——重申陈式兔子定理-陈安的博文） 如那张图和许多人所说，博士能够创造新的知识。 许多人没有博士 …
为什么有的教授的title是Prof有的是Dr？ - 知乎
所以看德语区高校的网站，他们的教授的名字前通常都是Prof. Dr. ，如果有两个博士学位的话，那就加两个Dr.，如果是Doctor of Engineering的话，也得给你写清楚是Dr.-Ing，如果是工程师的 …
请问MD PhD PharmD 等等这些，各代表哪种医学学历? - 知乎
DO Doctor of Osteopathic 也是医学博士，美国开设医学院校中有部分是DO院校，比MD多学习一些正骨医学，鄙视链低于上面。 MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery我国（ …
研究生，硕士，博士，phd等这些学历分别是什么？ - 知乎
博士拿的是博士学位，硕士拿的是硕士学位。博士还可以分为PhD、DBA、DD等，国外分的正式一点，国内目前图一乐。“博士”或者“Doctor”这个头衔一般授予拥有博士学位的人。 所以每次有 …
为什么说一天一个苹果不生病，an apple a day, keep doctor away?
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" 一天一个苹果，医生离你远 这句谚语出现在1913年杂志封面上 19世纪，疾病的治疗效果没有并没有现在好，对疾病的了解还停留在表面，当时普通人对 …
有哪些下载ed2k的软件？ - 知乎
都是一些无良的推荐，上面问可以下载ed2k的软件，你们回答问题之前都试了吗？推荐 BitComet 比特彗星、 Motrix 、qBittorrent、uTorrent、BitComet，文件蜈蚣
为什么英语中，医生叫doctor，博士也叫doctor？ - 知乎
中古英语受法语影响，通常用medicine表示医生。大概从15世纪开始直到16世纪，Doctor of Medicine的缩写doctor逐渐成为主流用法。其中，表达法doctor of phesike（doctor of …
哲学博士（Ph.D） 科学博士（D.Sc.）有什么区别？ - 知乎
通俗说一下，在美国，所有的专业在最高级别的博士学位（同一水平）有叫法有两种，一个是 Ph.D. ，全称 A Doctor of Philosophy ，也就是哲学博士，且所有专业的哲学博士都可以 …
phd和Doctor有什么区别 - 知乎
Doctor是博士称号。PhD是Doctorate博士文凭的一种，是Doctor of philosophy 的简写，也就是哲学博士。 再举个例子。EngD也是Doctorate的一种，是Doctor of engineering的简写，也就是 …
Prof. Dr. 与 Prof.有什么区别？ - 知乎
Dr.是doctor的简写，即博士（最高学位。且必须是取得该头衔后才能称呼。在读博士是 Doctoral Candidate）。 by the way：博士后不是学位的一种，只是在某处工作的博士的类职称而已。 …
为什么博士叫PhD？ - 知乎
博士（Doctor）学位意味着能独立完成研究任务。 （科学网-博士究竟和硕士有何不同——重申陈式兔子定理-陈安的博文） 如那张图和许多人所说，博士能够创造新的知识。 许多人没有博士 …
为什么有的教授的title是Prof有的是Dr？ - 知乎
所以看德语区高校的网站，他们的教授的名字前通常都是Prof. Dr. ，如果有两个博士学位的话，那就加两个Dr.，如果是Doctor of Engineering的话，也得给你写清楚是Dr.-Ing，如果是工程师的 …
请问MD PhD PharmD 等等这些，各代表哪种医学学历? - 知乎
DO Doctor of Osteopathic 也是医学博士，美国开设医学院校中有部分是DO院校，比MD多学习一些正骨医学，鄙视链低于上面。 MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery我国（ …
研究生，硕士，博士，phd等这些学历分别是什么？ - 知乎
博士拿的是博士学位，硕士拿的是硕士学位。博士还可以分为PhD、DBA、DD等，国外分的正式一点，国内目前图一乐。“博士”或者“Doctor”这个头衔一般授予拥有博士学位的人。 所以每次有 …
为什么说一天一个苹果不生病，an apple a day, keep doctor …
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" 一天一个苹果，医生离你远 这句谚语出现在1913年杂志封面上 19世纪，疾病的治疗效果没有并没有现在好，对疾病的了解还停留在表面，当时普通人 …
有哪些下载ed2k的软件？ - 知乎
都是一些无良的推荐，上面问可以下载ed2k的软件，你们回答问题之前都试了吗？推荐 BitComet 比特彗星、 Motrix 、qBittorrent、uTorrent、BitComet，文件蜈蚣
