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by: Alexander Solzhenitsyn See Larger Image Used Price: $1.78 Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780006122500 Format: Import ISBN: 0006122507 Label: Fontana / Collins Manufacturer: Fontana / Collins Number Of Pages: 581 Publication Date: 1970 Publisher: Fontana / Collins Sales Rank: 1495005 Studio: Fontana / Collins Related Items: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics) Cancer Ward The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005 see more Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Harper & Row's de facto censorship For the second time in the last fifteen years, Harper & Row (or HarperCollins now), which claims to own the world-wide publishing rights to The First Circle, has stopped printing this magnificent work. They did it once before in the mid-90's. When I protested to them that I could not find copies enough for my students in a Russian literature course, they shrugged me off. Happily, after letting the book languish for two years, they then licensed publishing rights to Northwestern University Press. ... Read More Rating: - Maybe its the translation Maybe the fault is with the translator, or maybe it is because the author is really a mathematician, but i found this book leaden and uninspiring. The prose are workmanlike to say the least. The dialogue is stilted and would sound at home in mouths of Dostoyevsky's or Turgenev's creatures. Aside from the hero, the characters --and their voices-- are undifferentiated. The women are two dimensional like figures constructed from formulas of femininity rather than real women drawn from life. Read More Rating: - beyond thought provoking Solzhenitsyn's character development is always amazing but, this book went beyond anything I have ever experienced before. The story of Nerzhin and Nadya was especially moving and captivating. Volodin's story of the Lubyanka made me feel as though I was actually there within the cold, towering walls. It is incredible how Solzhenitsyn can bring his characters down to the deepest levels of dispair and yet provide a glimmer of hope and humanity. I have read a few of Solzhenitsyn's novels before, and this, ... Read More Rating: - Much to identify with What does a gulag for the learned elite have in common with an American corporation? Far too much. I read this book years ago, and wish that I could find my copy again. Every engineering education should commence with a reading and discussion of this most engaging book, alongside Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine. Kidder covers the exterior of the engineering process in an American context of a specific time. Solzhenitsyn, though goes to the deep essential tension, of creativity commanded to ... Read More Rating: - AN ALMOST GREAT BOOK "The First Circle" is a deeep look into the hearts of people subject to near-absolute power. There is a quality of Kafka more than Tolstoy. The power is so distant. But then Solzhenitsyn takes himself and us into the mind of Stalin himself. This is the weakest part of the book. He makes sounds which he imagines to be Stalin's, as having Stalin think of going to Church- like Christians everywhere. One never feels inside Stalin. It seems almost a childlike view of the dictator. In many ways it is as ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: General - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS ( S ) - Authors, A-Z - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Paperback Trade