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Synopsis
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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Review
"A great novel... A majestic work of genius" (Sunday Times)
"The First Circle is arguably the greatest Russian novel of the century" (Spectator)
"A future generation of Russians will be able to come to terms with their history through books like Doctor Zhivago and The First Circle" (Financial Times)
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One of the greatest Russian novels of all time, this epic explores the dark side of Soviet life in the final years of Stalin's reign of terror.
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The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)
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First Circle (English and Russian Edition) Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaev Ich
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The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)
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HarperCollins, 1968
ISBN 10: 0060139498
ISBN 13: 9780060139490
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 2106010009
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THE FIRST CIRCLE
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Harper & Row, USA, 1968
ISBN 10: 0060139498
ISBN 13: 9780060139490
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First Edition
Seller: LA BookWorks, West Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 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 dust jacket of this book is not in great shape. The book has not been read; when I opened it to count the pages (580), some of the original printer's trimmings fell out. There are no marks of any kind in it or on it. It is pristine. Seller Inventory # ABE-1758986551167
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The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)
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Condition: very good. Gently used. May include previous owner's signature or bookplate on the front endpaper, sticker on back and/or remainder mark on text block. Seller Inventory # 9780060139490-3
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The First Circle
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 357018