Boris Pasternak 2 Volume Paperback Set

Volume 1: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Origins and infancy; 2. School and Scriabin; 3. Revolution and Berlin; 4. Youth's impressions, literature and music; 5. Literature, love and creativity; 6. Philosophy in Moscow and Marburg; 7. A literary launch; 8. Wartime in the Urals and Over the Barriers; 9. Quiet Hills and revolution; 10. Civil war activities; 11. Berlin interlude; 12. Malady Sublime and the air of history; 13. The epic age; 14. Breaches, losses, and lyric revival; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Volume 2: 1. The crisis of the lyric; 2. Time of plague; 3. New love and second birth; 4. A prisoner of the time; 5. Congress, consensus and confrontation; 6. Peredelkino and the purges; 7. Prose, obscurity and Hamlet; 8. Word War and evacuation; 9. Christopol translation; 10. War and peace in Moscow; 11. 'From immortality's archive' - birth of a novel; 12. Faustian pursuits in life and letters; 13. The darkness before dawn; 14. Creations of the Thaw; 14. The skies clear … and darken; 16. The printing and the prize; 17. 'Other new goals': the final year; Notes, Bibliography; Index of works by Pasternak; General index.