LARA: THE UNTOLD STORY AND THE INSPIRATION FOR ’DOCTOR ZHIVAGO’ By Anna Pasternak Ecco, $27.99, 310 pages, illustrated Sometimes when you read a novel, you just know that the love story at its heart ...

During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar ...

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To most people, “Doctor Zhivago” means Julie Christie as Lara and Omar Sharif as Yuri in the swoonily romantic 1965 film. Fewer people know the true story of passion, espionage and propaganda behind ...

LONDON — Russian love story Doctor Zhivago, originally banned in Russia, is returning to its roots in TV movie form thanks to a deal struck by U.K. distribber Granada International with Channel One ...

Lara Prescott is the latest graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas to strike it big. Rights to Prescott's debut novel, We Were Never Here, have sold to Knopf after a ...

Yuri Zhivago is a young doctor and rising poet, about to be married to Anna. He meets Lara (the teenage mistress of a politician) when she tries to kill herself. Lara marries the Bolshevik Antipov, ...

“Masterpiece Theatre” host Russell Baker describes Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel “Doctor Zhivago” as a story resembling a Grimm fairy tale, in which innocents get lost in the woods and confront ...

After a 14-bidder auction involving 21 different imprints, Jordan Pavlin at Knopf won North American rights to the buzzed-about debut novel by Lara Prescott, We Were Never Here. The book, which Knopf ...

Based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak, the romance is set during the final days of Czarist Russia and follows Zhivago, a political idealist, physician and poet. His life is tossed by the tides of ...

Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he ...

Some will rightfully pine for Maurice Jarre's Oscar-winning score, Julie Christie and Omar Sharif, yet this somewhat less epic take on Boris Pasternak's book is a creditable version, featuring ...