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Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description
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Physical description: xiii, 580 p ; 25 cm. Notes: Translation of V kruge pervom (romanized form). Summary: The First Circle is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period. A young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the experience of acquiring an immortal soul. Unwisely but generously, he helps a friend in danger of arrest, only to be arrested himself and sent to a special prison. This, the archetype of the Gulag, is described with masterful psychological insight. Subject: Political persecution - Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1917-1936 - Fiction. Historical fiction. Russian fiction. Political prisoners. Forced labor - Soviet Union. Other names: Whitney, Thomas P. Genre: Novel, Fiction.
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The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1968 Harper & Row hardcover - 1st edition 1st printing - some wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to closed page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy. Codice articolo 2106010009
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THE FIRST CIRCLE
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Harper & Row, USA, 1968
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This is a first edition of the First Circle, a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), published by Harper & Row in 1968, before he was expelled from the Soviet Union. This is also a limited edition, as Solzhenitsyn rewrote much of it before he died; the new version was published in 2009. The book is highly autobiographical; it depicts the lives of the occupants of a research bureau made of gulag inmates located in the Moscow suburbs. Many of the prisoners are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the Penal Code, as part of Stalin's purges. This group was well-treated, but if they fell out of favour, they'd be shipped to Siberia. The title refers to Dante's First Circle of Hell, where the philosophers live in a walled garden, enjoying a small space of freedom in the heart of Hell. The cover of this book is a bright pink, with some scuffing. The spine of the jacket is heavily faded. The rest of the book is absolutely pristine. It has not been read; when I opened it, some of the original printer's trimmings fell out. There are no marks of any kind in it or on it. Codice articolo ABE-1758986551167
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good DJ. Book-of-the-month Club. HarperCollins 1968 Book-of-the-month Club Very Good/Very Good DJ Light wear to brown cloth, solid structure, tight tanned pages. Inside page edges deckled. Blind stamp on back near bottom of gutter. Some fading, verticle creasing and mended tears to clipped dust jacket. 580 pages. Size: 9 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches. LARGE HEAVY ITEM. No Exp. Codice articolo 357018
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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('to Robert 2005') 1/2 inch closed jacket tear, front jacket flap corner clipped. 1968 Hard Cover. xiii, [3], 580 pp. 8vo. "Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. Signed by author. Codice articolo 2303524
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