New York, NY: Frederick Praeger, 1963. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Subtitled “A Soviet Novel of Life in Stalin’s Forced Labor Camps,” Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” is an uncontested classic of World Literature. First published in the Soviet literary magazine “Novy Mir,” or “New World” in November of 1962, it describes a single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Uncorrected Proof. Wrappers. "Prussian Nights was written, or rather composed in Solzhenitsyn's head, while he was serving his sentence of forced labor. A poem, a verse narrative, it is not autobiography in any strict sense, but it is based on Solzhenitsyn's own war experience." (from Translator's Note, pg. 33) A poem by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), the towering Russian writer who was imprisoned..... More