One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 10: 0451521765 / ISBN 13: 9780451521767

Published by Signet Classics, 1963

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0451521765I4N00

Synopsis:

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Solzhenitsyn's picture of human life in inhuman conditions. Written from personal experience, it describes in detail the day of a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp.

Review: Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.
New Statesman
Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.
Time
Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.
Washington Post
Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record.
Library Journal"

-Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.-
-New Statesman
-Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.-
-Time
-Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.-
-Washington Post
-Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record.-
-Library Journal

"Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude."
-New Statesman

"Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war."
-Time

"Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category."
-Washington Post

"Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record."
-Library Journal

Bibliographic Details

Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Publisher: Signet Classics
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket