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The first circle / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney.
LIBRA PG3488.O4 V213
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.
- Standardized Title:
- V kruge pervom. English
- В круге первом. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90657932
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Political persecution.
- Politics and government.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936--Fiction.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953--Fiction.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union--Fiction.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (autograph) (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 580 pages, 12 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Evanston : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1968]
- Language Note:
- Translation of V kruge pervom (romanized form)
- Summary:
- The First Circle of Dante's Hell--where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity--stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions of Stalin's Russia.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- "Format by Katharine Sitterly."
- "Set in Linotype Caledonia."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Adena & Chaim Potok January 1969 Philadelphia".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. V kruge pervom. English. First circle.
- OCLC:
- 179180
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