THE LOVE GIRL AND THE INNOCENT A PLAY

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN ( TRANSLATORS - NICHOLAS BETHELL AND DAVID BURG)

ISBN 10: 0370013212 / ISBN 13: 9780370013213

Published by THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON, 1969

About this Item

Pale lavender boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. [vi] + 132 pp. First Edition 1969. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book - a little dust spotting to top edge of book block, no previous owner name, insc. nor annotations. Dust Jacket- mild general shelf soiling and tanning, red title to spine a little faded and with two tears - max 12 mm - one to tail and the other at rear fore edge flap fold with associated light creasing, non price clipped - cover 21s. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LOVE GIRL AND THE INNOCENT A PLAY
• Publisher: THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0370013212
• ISBN 13: 9780370013213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions
  • English Literature/Poetry/Plays

About this title

Synopsis

English, Russian (translation)

About the Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1918. 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. He died in Moscow in 2008.