The Oak and the Calf

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper & Row, (1980)

CANCER WARD

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous” Soviet police state.

Cancer Ward

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Alexander Solzhenitsyn and six dissident colleagues joined in the mid-seventies to write this book, which surely remains the most extraordinary debate of a nation's future published in modern times.

From Under the Rubble 1st English language edition by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Agursky, Vadim Borisov, Evge (1975) Hardcover

Mikhail Agursky

Vadim Borisov

Evgeny Barabanov

F. Korsakov

Igor Shafarevich

Leaders & Notable People

Little. Brown and Company

ONE WORD OF TRUTH

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

The Mortal Danger: How Misconceptions About Russia Imperil the West

History

Russia

First Edition 1976 - Stated. Owner stamp on end page. Some shelf wear and a few taped tears to DJ. Writing impression to DJ but DJ is clean (from writing on paper that was on top of DJ). Boards in excellent shape. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book.

Lenin In Zurich

Genre Fiction

Farar, Straus, & Giroux

August 1914

"The general concept of this novel," the author has written, "came to my mind in 1936, when I was just leaving secondary school. Since then I have never parted from it, regarding it as the chief artistic design of my life." He has also said he considers the previous books he has published minor to this--"a result of the oddities of my life story..."AUGUST 1914, the first part of this major work, is set at the outbreak of the First World War, and its moral concern is to establish the responsibility for Russia's defeat in the battle of Tannenberg. Limiting itself to the opening two weeks of the war, the novel describes the Russian offensive into East Prussia, which resulted in the encirclement and defeat of General Samsonov's Second Army by Hindenburg. This disaster revealed the dry rot at the core of Tsarism and hastened its downfall.The main theme is filled out by a great cross-section of characters, both fictitious and historic, from every walk of Russian life. The fictional character of Colonel Vorotyntsev, an enlightened and ironic young staff officer who mixes with the soldiers as much as with generals, provides a link between the various elements in the story. Solzhenitsyn gives a sympathetic portrait of Samsonov as the victim of staff blunders and personality clashes, and there is a moving description of his suicide in defeat.AUGUST 1914 is a triumph of historical reconstruction as well as of the creative imagination. In the final chapter, it is clear that the guilty will escape through their influence at court, that Russia's military humiliation is only a symptom of the deeper shame of the Tsarists system, and that a new Russia will somehow have to be born. The novel glows with the author's love of his country and with his deep concern for ordinary men and women.It's first publication in English, in an excellent translation by Michael Glenny, is a literary event of world-wide importance.

August 1914: A Novel

Michael Glenny

Literary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Dramas & Plays

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

In March 1953 seventeen years before he received the Nobel Prize Alexander Solzhenitsyn ended his term in the Ekibastuz labor camp with the play Victory Celebrations and seven of the twelve scenes of Prisoners committed to memory During his ensuing internal exile he completed Prisoners and started another play The Love Girl and the Innocent The result is a dramatic trilogy focusing on events of the year 1945 the Russian army s advance into East Prussia and the repatriation of former Russian prisoners of war to the Gulag labor camps Book jacket

Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl and the Innocent: Three Plays

Humor & Entertainment

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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