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- ↑ Maya Slater Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 0817910263- 2013 And it suffuses 'A Tale' (whose English-language edition was titled 'The Last Summer'), in which Boris's unfulfilled intention had been to describe the First World War and the Russian Civil War. Instead, it ends in 1914, with the last summer of ..
- ↑ Reference Guide to Russian Literature -Neil Cornwell - 2013 Page 943 1134260776 Last Summer (Pasternak), 1959
- ↑ The Publishers Weekly - Volume 177 -1960 Page 328 "10, 1958), there may still be a Boris Pasternak picture in the offing. Christopher Sergei and George Reavey are completing a screenplay based on "The Last Summer." The short novel, a copy of which the author personally presented to ..."