Solzhenitsyn A Biography
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Vendeur : BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. DJ is clean with a few small tears to the edges. It has been price clipped. Contents are clean and bright. N° de réf. du vendeur 9999-99991308416
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Vendeur : BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light even toning. Good DJ has chips/tears. N° de réf. du vendeur 9999-9995563002
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Vendeur : Anybook.com, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:0340165936. N° de réf. du vendeur 5794833
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Vendeur : Anybook.com, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:0340165936. N° de réf. du vendeur 4129778
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Vendeur : MW Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 371 pages; Description: 371 p. , 4 leaves of plates : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. 2 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 28177
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Vendeur : Crappy Old Books, Barry, Royaume-Uni
Hardback. Etat : Good. Solzhenitsyn ? A Biography (1972) by David Burg and George Feifer ? Hodder and Stoughton ? Good Condition Some writers have difficult careers. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had the sort of career in which publishing the wrong sentence could result in surveillance, censorship, exile, imprisonment or a lengthy and highly involuntary change of address. In Solzhenitsyn ? A Biography , David Burg and George Feifer examine the life and extraordinary rise of the Russian novelist, dissident and former prisoner whose writing became one of the most powerful literary challenges to the Soviet state. Published in 1972 , this biography appeared while Solzhenitsyn was still very much a living political problem for the authorities, which gives the book an immediacy rather different from biographies written comfortably after everybody involved has become history. Solzhenitsyn?s life had already included service in the Red Army during the Second World War, arrest for criticising Stalin in private correspondence, years in labour camps and internal exile, followed by the deeply inconvenient discovery that he possessed both a formidable literary talent and a determination to write about what he had experienced. Works such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , The First Circle and Cancer Ward brought him international recognition while simultaneously ensuring that official enthusiasm for his literary career cooled rather dramatically. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 did not exactly make relations with the Soviet establishment less complicated. Burg and Feifer trace not only Solzhenitsyn the writer, but Solzhenitsyn the public figure: stubborn, controversial, intensely serious and increasingly symbolic of the struggle between individual testimony and state-controlled history. It is difficult to imagine a government being genuinely alarmed by a novelist today, but Solzhenitsyn operated in an environment where a manuscript could be regarded as politically more dangerous than a weapon, largely because people could read it without permission. Because this biography dates from 1972 , it also captures Solzhenitsyn at a particularly fascinating moment. His later expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974, his years in the West and eventual return to Russia were still in the future. Readers therefore encounter the story before its later chapters had actually happened, when both admirers and opponents were still trying to work out what Solzhenitsyn represented and what the Soviet authorities might do about him next. Published by Hodder and Stoughton , this is an interesting period biography as much as a literary one: a contemporary attempt to understand a man whose reputation was developing in real time amid Cold War politics, censorship, ideological conflict and international attention. This copy is in Good condition , having survived rather more peacefully than its subject. It may display the usual signs of age and previous ownership expected of a book from the early 1970s, but remains a sound reading copy and an appealing addition to a shelf devoted to Russian literature, twentieth-century history, political biography or books about people governments would strongly have preferred to keep quiet. ISBN 0340165936 . Ideal for readers interested in Solzhenitsyn, Soviet history, dissident literature, the Cold War, censorship, the Gulag system or the curious period when writing a serious novel could result in an international diplomatic incident. Sold by Crappy Old Books ? where troublesome authors are welcomed, censorship is minimal, and the only thing likely to disappear mysteriously is the last copy after somebody buys it. N° de réf. du vendeur 7374
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Vendeur : MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlande
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 371 pages; Description: 371 p. , 4 leaves of plates : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. 2 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 28177
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Vendeur : Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, first printing of the first edition, a well preserved tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a very good dust jacket. 371pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 300157
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Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
Etat : good, fair. Second Printing. 24 cm, 371, illus., footnotes, bibliography, chronology, index, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, & sm chips. Inscribed by the author (Burg). N° de réf. du vendeur 47011
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Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Second impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ***Very good in black boards with gilt titles to spine. Top edge of text-block stained black (as called for). Contemporaneous gift inscription in blue biro to front free endpaper: To Maggie love Ruth 1975.' Lower corner of front board very slightly bumped. Light sporadic foxing to fore-edge of text-block Interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour price-clipped dustwrapper. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and creased. Very small closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. Nick to head of spine of dustwrapper. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Tiny nick to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper. No fading to the red colour. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. 240mm x 164mm. 371 pages including chronology and index to rear. 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn's place in Soviet and world literature is now widely recognised, but only the barest of details are known about his life, his personal sufferings under Stalinism in its crudest form, and the attempts by the Soviet government to discredit him and his works. ---David Burg and George Feifer have written this biography to place this outstanding literary figure in his rightful context. The book traces his entire life for the first time, providing a full narrative from childhood to his present position in Russia. ---This biography is based primarily on detailed research into documents which Solzhenitsyn himself has made public, and into statements which he has openly made. Further material has been gathered from interviews with Russia in regular contact with Solzhenitsyn at the time of writing, and from interpretations of his work.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***Second impression of the true first edition, complete in its dustwrapper nice bright condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 3972
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