The City Boy vs Доктор Живаго: Which Should You Read?

The City Boy Herman Wouk · 1948 ★★★★☆ 3.8 321 pages · ≈ 5 h 57 m · Moderate

'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the…

Доктор Живаго Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957 ★★★★☆ 3.7 558 pages · ≈ 10 h 20 m · Challenging

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's…