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- 784 páginas
- 28 horas de lectura
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Notice: "In the First Circle" and "The First Circle": "In The First Circle" is 200pp longer; "The first circle" is a censored and abridged version.The thrilling cold war masterwork by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, published in full for the first timeMoscow, 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.
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In the First Circle, Aleksandr Isajevič Solženicyn
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2009
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- In the First Circle
- Subtítulo
- a novel
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Editorial
- HarperCollins
- Publicado en
- 2009
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 784
- ISBN10
- 0061479012
- ISBN13
- 9780061479014
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Literatura mundial, Compilaciones, antologías, Mujeres, Ficción contemporánea, Política, Cuentos cortos, EE.UU., Prosa bélica, Siglo XX, Guerras, Literatura americana, Siglo XIX, Regalos para mujeres, Rusia, Literatura rusa, América, Siglo XXI, Esperanza, Comunismo, Regalos, Unión Soviética, Premio Nobel, Lectura, Guerra Fría, Los Años 50 del Siglo XX, Gobierno, Años 60 del siglo XX, Diplomacia, Totalitarismo, Josif Vissarionovich Stalin, 1879-1953, Estalinismo, Ficción filosófica, Censura, Persecución Política, Premio Pulitzer, Arresto
- Descripción
- Notice: "In the First Circle" and "The First Circle": "In The First Circle" is 200pp longer; "The first circle" is a censored and abridged version.The thrilling cold war masterwork by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, published in full for the first timeMoscow, 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.