One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander.

Item Number: 2832

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1963.

First American edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in an excellent dust jacket with some light rubbing and few small closed tears.

Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. 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)