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Books like Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is about individual against history, love under revolution, art and survival. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov · Classics
The Master and Margarita is structured as a double narrative: one set in Moscow in the 1930s, where a figure named Woland (who is Satan) arrives with a retinue of demons and wreaks havoc on the Soviet literary and cultural establishment; and one set in Jerusalem around the time of the Crucifixion, where Pontius Pilate interrogates a wandering philosopher named Yeshua.
Read the summary → - The Gulag Archipelago
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · History
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's monumental account of the Soviet forced-labor camp system.
Read the summary → - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi · Memoir
Azar Nafisi spent years teaching literature at universities in Tehran before the restrictions on what she could teach — and who she could teach — became intolerable.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
Read the summary → - Bleak House
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Bleak House is organized around the interminable Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — a legal dispute over a will that has been grinding through the Court of Chancery for decades, consuming the fortunes and lives of everyone attached to it.
Read the summary → - Candide
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Voltaire · Classics
Candide is a young man raised in a Westphalian castle on the philosophy of his tutor Pangloss: that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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