The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

ISBN 10: 0060139498 / ISBN 13: 9780060139490

Published by HarperCollins, 1968

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Very good, with dust jacket protector. Stated 1968 First Edition HB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060139498
• ISBN 13: 9780060139490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Used: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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

From the Back Cover

The thrilling cold war masterwork by the nobel prize winner, published in full for the first time

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.

First written between 1955 and 1958, In the First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's fiction masterpiece. In order to pass through Soviet censors, many essential scenes—including nine full chapters—were cut or altered before it was published in a hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author's most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts, here for the first time is the complete, definitive English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic.