In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

742 pages first pub 1968 (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. Set in Moscow during a three-day p...

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