The first circle
By: [by] Aleksandr I. Solzhenit͡s︡yn. Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction
Description: 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: Translation of V kruge pervom.