Gulag Archipelago - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006080503X ISBN 13: 9780060805036

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1979

Synopsis

Edition Harper & Row, publishers, 1974. English translation by Thomas Whitney. ISBN: 0-06-013914-5. PAPERBACK. 672 pages, size: 18 x 10.8 x 4 cm. Just light tanning to paper edges. Other than that, the book remains in very good condition: Soft cover remains in good form; text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from BookGems (UK).. (Please note the illustrating pictures you see next to our description are from the actual item in our stock and might not match with the main page's image, which is sometimes confusing).

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Review

"To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age" (W.L. Webb Guardian)

"The ferocious testimony of a man of genius" (Stephen Spender London Magazine)

"What gives the book its value is the sound it gives out; the harsh roar give out by a wise and experienced animal as a warning that the herd is in danger" (Rebecca West Sunday Telegraph)

"He is one of the towering figures of the age as a writer, as moralist, as hero... in The Gulag Archipelago he has acheived the impossible" (Edward Crankshaw Observer)

Book Description

'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006080503X
• ISBN 13: 9780060805036
• Binding: Paperback