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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.

In the first circle : a novel, the restored text / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Harry T. Willetts.

1st ed.

New York : Harper Perennial, ©2009.

xxx, 741 pages ; 23 cm

Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description.

Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.

Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction.

Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction.

Willetts, H. T.

V kruge pervom. English

Previously published (1968) in a shortened and altered ed., with title: The first circle.

"The first uncensored edition."--Cover.

Introduction, by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. Characters Author's Note 1Torpedo -- 2A MiscueXX 3Sharashka -- 4A Protestant Christmas -- 5Boogie-Woogie -- 6A Peaceful Existence -- 7A Woman's Heart -- 8"Oh, Moment, Stay!" -- 9The Fifth Year in Harness -- 10The Rosicrucians -- 11The Enchanted Castle -- 12Number SevenXXX 13He Should Have Lied -- 14The Blue Light -- 15A Girl! A Girl! -- 16A Troika of Liars -- 17Hot Water -- 18"Oh, Wonder-Working Steed" -- 19The Birthday Hero -- 20A Study of a Great Lif -- 21Give Us Back the Death Penalty! -- 22The Emperor of the Earth -- 23Language as an Instrument of Production -- 24The Abyss Beckons Again -- 25The Church of Nikita the Martyr -- 26Sawing Wood -- 27A Bit of Methodology -- 28The Junior Lieutenant's Job -- 29The Lieutenant Colonel's Job -- 30A Puzzled Robo -- 31How to Darn Sock -- 32On the Path to a Million -- 33Penalty Marks -- 34Voice Prints -- 35Kissing Is Forbidden -- 36Phonoscopy -- 37The Silent Alarm -- 38Be Unfaithful to Me! -- 39Fine Words, Those, "to t -- 45The Running Dogs of Imperialism -- 46The Castle of the Holy Grail -- 47Top-Secret Conversatio -- 48The Double Agent -- 49Life Is Not a Novel -- 50The Old Maid -- 51Fire and Hay -- 52To the Resurrection of the Dead! -- 53The Ark -- 54Leisure Amusements -- 55Prince Igor -- 56Winding Up the Twentieth -- 57Prisoners' Petty Matters -- 58A Banquet of Friends -- 59The Buddha's Smile -- 60But We Are Given Only One Conscience, Too -- 61The Uncle at Tver -- 62Two Sons-in-Law -- 63The Diehard -- 64Entered Cities First -- 65A Duel Not by the Rules -- 6Going to the People -- 67Spiridon -- 68Spiridon's Criterion -- 69Behind a Closed Visor -- 70Dotty -- 71Let's Agree That This Didn't Happen -- 72Civic Temples -- 73A Circle of Wrongs -- 74Monday Dawn -- 75Four Nails -- 76Favorite Profession -- 77The Decision Taken -- 78The Professional Party Secretary -- 79The Decision Explained 80One Hundred and Forty-Seven Rubles -- 81The Scientific Elite -- 82Indoctrination in Optimism -- 83The King of Stool Pigeons -- 84As for Shooting . . . -- 85Prince Kurbsky -- 86No Fisher of Men -- 87At the Fount of Science -- 88The Leading Ideology -- 89Little Quail -- 90On the Back Stairway -- 91Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here -- 92Keep Forever -- 93Second WindX -- 94Always Caught Off-Guard -- 95Farewell, Sharashka -- 96Meat.

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