Millions of people have watched the star studded 1965 David Lean film adaptation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast) with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie (Available on DVD at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Zhivago-DVD-Omar-Sharif/dp/B00005MHNO/ref=pd_sim_b_1.)
Why not give this classic a read? A love story set amid the swirling chaos of the Russian Revolution. First published in Italy in 1957 Pasternak’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak) masterpiece was not allowed to appear in the Soviet Union until 1987.
512 pages in Vintage Classics paperback edition.
ISBN 978-0099448426
Boris Pasternak