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For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author''s most accessible novel

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich''s struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''s own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparentwhich makes its ultimate tribute to one man''s will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving.

An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin''s forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn''s novels to be p

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A Paperback by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mr H T Willetts

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    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 7/29/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780374534684, 978-0374534684
    ISBN10: 0374534683

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author''s most accessible novel

    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich''s struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''s own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparentwhich makes its ultimate tribute to one man''s will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving.

    An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin''s forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn''s novels to be p

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