Alexander Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – 1963 First Paperback Edition
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A first paperback edition in English of this ground-breaking account of life in a Stalinist Gulag.
Set in an early 1950s labour camp, the book’s publication was a landmark event in Soviet history as it was the first time an account of Stalinist repression had been widely distributed.
This was Solzhenitsyn’s first published work. He later wrote The Gulag Archipelago, Cancer Ward and others, and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.
Published by Penguin in London in 1963, a year after the original Russian-language release of the book. Translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker.
In very good condition. No major folds or creases to covers. Clean inside with no writing. 144 pages.
