In the First Circle
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In the First Circle

The First Uncensored Edition

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eBook - ePub

In the First Circle

The First Uncensored Edition

About this book

The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time.

"Solzhenitsyn's best novel. . . . A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers.” —Washington Post

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.

First written between 1955 and 1958, In the First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's fiction masterpiece. In order to pass through Soviet censors, many essential scenes—including nine full chapters—were cut or altered before it was published in a hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author's most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts, here for the first time is the complete, definitive English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic.

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780061479014
eBook ISBN
9780062194886

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Cast of Characters
  7. Author’s Note
  8. Chapter 1 - Torpedo
  9. Chapter 2 - A Miscue
  10. Chapter 3 - Sharashka
  11. Chapter 4 - A Protestant Christmas
  12. Chapter 5 - Boogie-Woogie
  13. Chapter 6 - A Peaceful Existence
  14. Chapter 7 - A Woman’s Heart
  15. Chapter 8 - “Oh, Moment, Stay!”
  16. Chapter 9 - The Fifth Year in Harness
  17. Chapter 10 - The Rosicrucians
  18. Chapter 11 - The Enchanted Castle
  19. Chapter 12 - Number Seven
  20. Chapter 13 - He Should Have Lied
  21. Chapter 14 - The Blue Light
  22. Chapter 15 - A Girl! A Girl!
  23. Chapter 16 - A Troika of Liars
  24. Chapter 17 - Hot Water
  25. Chapter 18 - “Oh, Wonder-Working Steed”
  26. Chapter 19 - The Birthday Hero
  27. Chapter 20 - A Study of a Great Life
  28. Chapter 21 - Give Us Back the Death Penalty!
  29. Chapter 22 - The Emperor of the Earth
  30. Chapter 23 - Language as an Instrument of Production
  31. Chapter 24 - The Abyss Beckons Again
  32. Chapter 25 - The Church of Nikita the Martyr
  33. Chapter 26 - Sawing Wood
  34. Chapter 27 - A Bit of Methodology
  35. Chapter 28 - The Junior Lieutenant’s Job
  36. Chapter 29 - The Lieutenant Colonel’s Job
  37. Chapter 30 - A Puzzled Robot
  38. Chapter 31 - How to Darn Socks
  39. Chapter 32 - On the Path to a Million
  40. Chapter 33 - Penalty Marks
  41. Chapter 34 - Voiceprints
  42. Chapter 35 - Kissing Is Forbidden
  43. Chapter 36 - Phonoscopy
  44. Chapter 37 - The Silent Alarm
  45. Chapter 38 - Be Unfaithful to Me!
  46. Chapter 39 - Fine Words, Those, “To the Taiga!”
  47. Chapter 40 - A Rendezvous
  48. Chapter 41 - And Another One
  49. Chapter 42 - And Among the Kids
  50. Chapter 43 - A Woman Was Washing the Staircase
  51. Chapter 44 - Out in the Open
  52. Chapter 45 - The Running Dogs of Imperialism
  53. Chapter 46 - The Castle of the Holy Grail
  54. Chapter 47 - Top-Secret Conversation
  55. Chapter 48 - The Double Agent
  56. Chapter 49 - Life Is Not a Novel
  57. Chapter 50 - The Old Maid
  58. Chapter 51 - Fire and Hay
  59. Chapter 52 - To the Resurrection of the Dead!
  60. Chapter 53 - The Ark
  61. Chapter 54 - Leisure Amusements
  62. Chapter 55 - Prince Igor
  63. Chapter 56 - Winding Up the Twentieth
  64. Chapter 57 - Prisoners’ Petty Matters
  65. Chapter 58 - A Banquet of Friends
  66. Chapter 59 - The Buddha’s Smile
  67. Chapter 60 - But We Are Given Only One Conscience, Too
  68. Chapter 61 - The Uncle at Tver
  69. Chapter 62 - Two Sons-in-Law
  70. Chapter 63 - The Diehard
  71. Chapter 64 - Entered Cities First
  72. Chapter 65 - A Duel Not by the Rules
  73. Chapter 66 - Going to the People
  74. Chapter 67 - Spiridon
  75. Chapter 68 - Spiridon’s Criterion
  76. Chapter 69 - Behind a Closed Visor
  77. Chapter 70 - Dotty
  78. Chapter 71 - Let’s Agree That This Didn’t Happen
  79. Chapter 72 - Civic Temples
  80. Chapter 73 - A Circle of Wrongs
  81. Chapter 74 - Monday Dawn
  82. Chapter 75 - Four Nails
  83. Chapter 76 - Favorite Profession
  84. Chapter 77 - The Decision Taken
  85. Chapter 78 - The Professional Party Secretary
  86. Chapter 79 - The Decision Explained
  87. Chapter 80 - One Hundred Forty-Seven Rubles
  88. Chapter 81 - The Scientific Elite
  89. Chapter 82 - Indoctrination in Optimism
  90. Chapter 83 - The King of Stool Pigeons
  91. Chapter 84 - As for Shooting . . .
  92. Chapter 85 - Prince Kurbsky
  93. Chapter 86 - No Fisher of Men
  94. Chapter 87 - At the Fount of Science
  95. Chapter 88 - The Leading Ideology
  96. Chapter 89 - Little Quail
  97. Chapter 90 - On the Back Stairway
  98. Chapter 91 - Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here
  99. Chapter 92 - Keep Forever
  100. Chapter 93 - Second Wind
  101. Chapter 94 - Always Caught Off Guard
  102. Chapter 95 - Farewell, Sharashka
  103. Chapter 96 - Meat
  104. About the Author
  105. Also by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  106. Credits
  107. Copyright
  108. About the Publisher