This product is a first edition 1958 hardback copy of "Doctor Zhivago" by Pasternak, published by Collins & Harvill Press. It is an 8th impression from 1958, featuring a dust jacket, making it a valuable collectible for fans of historical fiction and literature from the 1950s. The book, set during World War II, is written in English and is intended for a mature audience, making it a timeless piece of art and culture that captures the struggle and complexities of the era.The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.Owing to the author's critical stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the manuscript was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event that embarrassed and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.