Dec 16, 2009

Doctor Zhivago | What Do I Read Next?

Pasternak thought of himself primarily as a poet. A selection of his poetry appeared in Pasternak: Selected Poems, published in 1992.

War and Peace, first published in a series between 1863 and 1869, covers the lives of several characters and the Russian culture during the Napoleonic wars. Tolstoy, a friend of Pasternak’s father, is a Russian literary legend. This novel is an epic recollection of five families and how they were affected by the wars.

Crime and Punishment is another classic Russian novel, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published...