Boris Pasternak Books in Order

Written amid the mounting tensions of 1917, this cycle follows personal journeys and experiences of love. Intimate feeling unfolds against the uncertainty and promise of revolution, placing an individual life beside a country approaching upheaval.

Separated by exile, political upheaval, and illness, three poets exchange letters during the summer of 1926. Their correspondence explores love, artistic work, and the personal pressures shaping their lives across Russia and Europe.

Visiting his sister during the First World War, Serezha recalls his life in Moscow before the fighting began. Memories of two women and their difficult circumstances draw the young poet toward an imagined work of art.

This compact selection gathers fifteen poems by Boris Pasternak, issued shortly after his Nobel Prize. With a foreword by Hugh Macdiarmid, it offers a brief introduction to his verse for readers approaching his poetry.

Pasternak reconstructs his early life through vivid impressions rather than a continuous chronology, tracing his formation as an artist. Short stories and selected poems accompany the memoir, extending its exploration of perception, creativity, and experience.

Pasternak revisits childhood and adolescence through scenes that shaped his imagination. These autobiographical sketches follow the experiences behind his artistic development, offering a personal account of how a young observer became a poet and novelist.

Pasternak explores love, faith, and the value of life in a selection of poems translated by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France. Personal feeling meets ethical and religious questions throughout this introduction to his verse.

This bilingual collection presents poems written during Pasternak’s later years, from 1945 to 1960. Russian texts appear alongside English translations, offering readers a selection from the period surrounding his work on Doctor Zhivago.

The twenty-five poems associated with Doctor Zhivago appear together with a critical discussion of their place in the novel. The volume considers how they contribute to its narrative and how they stand as poetry.

Letters written between 1931 and 1959 trace Pasternak’s friendships with Georgian poets and their families. Personal concerns, literary ideas, and political persecution emerge through correspondence sustained across Stalin’s purges and the difficulties of his final years.

Pasternak examines artistic creation through essays, speeches, notes, autobiography, and passages from Doctor Zhivago. Angela Livingstone supplies translations and commentary that connect his reflections on writing with broader questions about language, culture, and history.

Pasternak turns landscapes and everyday encounters with nature into lyric poems that explore the life around him. Andrei Navrozov translates this selection, bringing its changing scenery and closely observed experience into English verse.