One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander.

Item Number: 147918

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1963.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book and what many consider his masterpiece. Octavo, original black cloth. Translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. Introduction by Max Hayward and Leopold Lebedz. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip the spine.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first book, is an "economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union" (The New York Times). The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich yields, more than anything else, a beautiful sense of its author as a Chekhovian figure: simple, free of literary affectation, wholly serious" (The New Republic). Basis for the joint Norwegian-British 1970 film starring Tom Courtenay.