The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The First Circle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with Michael Guybon (Translator)

700 pages paperback 1968

36 editions

fiction classics dark reflective tense slow-paced
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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.

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