Cancer Ward: A Novel (FSG Classics) - Softcover

9780374534714: Cancer Ward: A Novel (FSG Classics)
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 

The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.

Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own―Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered―the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, Cancer Ward offers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev's reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956. Although permitted to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962--which remained his only full-length work to have appeared in his homeland until 1990--Solzhenitsyn was by 1969 expelled from the Writers' Union. The publication in the West of his other novels and, in particular, of The Gulag Archipelago, brought retaliation from the authorities. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. Solzhenitsyn and his wife and children moved to the United States in 1976. In September 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him; Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994.
Language Notes:
Text: English, Russian (translation)

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780099575511: CANCER WARD

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780099575511
Publisher: VINTAGE (RAND), 2003
Softcover

  • 9780374511999: Cancer Ward: A Novel (FSG Classics)

    Farrar..., 1991
    Softcover

  • 9781199066879: Cancer Ward

    Farrar..., 1969
    Hardcover

  • 9780055304759: Cancer Ward

    Bantam, 1972
    Softcover

  • 9780394604992: Cancer Ward (Modern Library)

    Modern..., 1984
    Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr
Published by MacMillan Publishers (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
INDOO
(Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 0374534713

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 14.79
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.99
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Soft Cover Quantity: 10
Seller:
booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780374534714

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 18.85
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich; Bethell, Nicholas (TRN); Burg, David (TRN)
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Softcover Quantity: 4
Seller:
GreatBookPrices
(Columbia, MD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 21725875-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 17.10
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Paperback or Softback Quantity: 5
Seller:
BargainBookStores
(Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Cancer Ward 0.9. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780374534714

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 21.04
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Paperback Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Save With Sam
(North Miami, FL, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # 0374534713

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 22.94
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Lucky's Textbooks
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2215580168951

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 20.33
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.99
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Paper Back Quantity: 1
Seller:
Eighth Day Books, LLC
(Wichita, KS, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paper Back. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 121733

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 20.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.95
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 0374534713-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Grand Eagle Retail
(Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own--Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered--the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, Cancer Ward offers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union. Translation of: Rakovyi korpus (romanized form). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780374534714

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.49
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0374534713

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 22.73
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book