In The First Circle

Author : Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062194886

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In the First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Pdf

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.

Author : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 0810115905

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The First Circle by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn Pdf

Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician, lives out his life in post-war Russia in a series of prisons and labor camps where he and his fellow inmates work to meet the demands of Stalin.

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780268105044

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Between Two Millstones, Book 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Pdf

Russian Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures—and perhaps the most important writer—of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments of his memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975), Between Two Millstones begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt, West Germany, as a result of the publication in the West of The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich, Switzerland, for a time and was considered the most famous man in the world, hounded by journalists and reporters. During this period, he found himself untethered and unable to work while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings. Between Two Millstones contains vivid descriptions of Solzhenitsyn's journeys to various European countries and North American locales, where he and his wife Natalia (“Alya”) searched for a location to settle their young family. There are fascinating descriptions of one-on-one meetings with prominent individuals, detailed accounts of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard University commencement, comments on his television appearances, accounts of his struggles with unscrupulous publishers and agents who mishandled the Western editions of his books, and the KGB disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. There are also passages on Solzhenitsyn's family and their property in Cavendish, Vermont, whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where he could finally work undisturbed on his ten-volume dramatized history of the Russian Revolution, The Red Wheel. Stories include the efforts made to assure a proper education for the writer's three sons, their desire to return one day to their home in Russia, and descriptions of his extraordinary wife, editor, literary advisor, and director of the Russian Social Fund, Alya, who successfully arranged, at great peril to herself and to her family, to smuggle Solzhenitsyn's invaluable archive out of the Soviet Union. Between Two Millstones is a literary event of the first magnitude. The book dramatically reflects the pain of Solzhenitsyn's separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western society.

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466839601

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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Pdf

Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.

Author : Randy Gage
Publisher : Prime Concepts Group
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Multilevel marketing
ISBN : 0967316456

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Making the First Circle Work by Randy Gage Pdf

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Author : Maggie Shipstead
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984897701

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Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People). After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.

Author : Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770899384

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The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson Pdf

Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives. Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. Initially, Pete keeps up ties to his crew, until a jail brawl forces him to realize the negative influence he has become on Joey, which encourages him to begin a process of rehabilitation that includes traditional Indigenous healing circles and ceremonies. Powerful, courageous, and deeply moving, The Outside Circle is drawn from the author’s twenty years of work and research on healing and reconciliation of gang-affiliated or incarcerated Indigenous men.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808608

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The Circle by Dave Eggers Pdf

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Author : Daniel T. Griswold
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781935308195

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Mad about Trade by Daniel T. Griswold Pdf

Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth says the author. He argues that free trade is good for the American family. Among the benefits he discusses are import competition that provides lower prices, greater variety, and better quality, especially for poor and middle class families. Driven in part by trade, most new jobs are well-paying service jobs. Foreign investment here has created well-paying jobs, and investment abroad has given United States companies access to millions of new customers. Trade helped expand the global middle class, reducing poverty and child labor while fueling demand for U.S. products. The author also looks at how the past three decades of an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world.

Author : Harrison Evans Salisbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UOM:39015005554293

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To Moscow - and beyond by Harrison Evans Salisbury Pdf

Author : Christina Baldwin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307418593

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Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin Pdf

The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's spirituality groups to corporate development teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity. In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 178487566X

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Warning to the West by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Pdf

'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world? I was swallowed myself. I have been in the dragon's belly, in its red-hot innards. It was unable to digest me and threw me up. I have come to you as a witness to what it is like there, in the dragon's belly' During 1975 and 1976, Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn embarked on a series of speeches across America and Britain that would shock and scandalise both countries. His message- the West was veering towards moral and spiritual bankruptcy, and with it the world's one hope against tyranny and totalitarianism. From Solzhenitsyn's warnings about the allure of communism, to his rebuke that the West should not abandon its age-old concepts of 'good' and 'evil', the speeches collected in Warning to the West provide insight into Solzhenitsyn's uncompromising moral vision. Read today, their message remains as powerfully urgent as when Solzhenitsyn first delivered them.

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536210545

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Circle by Mac Barnett Pdf

Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen deliver the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle, Square, and Circle. This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle’s friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule. With their usual pitch-perfect pacing and subtle, sharp wit, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen come full circle in the third and final chapter of their clever shapes trilogy.

Author : Maeve Binchy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409049135

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Circle Of Friends by Maeve Binchy Pdf

An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times, from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle. 'Full of warmth and pure delight' Woman & Home 'Binchy's novels are never less than entertaining' Sunday Times 'What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?' HELLO! Magazine ____________ Trouble is brewing for this circle of friends. Generous-hearted Benny Hogan and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends for years, growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom... On their first day at University College, the inseparable pair are thrown together with fellow students: beautiful but selfish Nan Mahon and the handsome Jack Foley. But trouble is brewing for Benny and Eve's new circle of friends and, before long, they find passion, tragedy - and the independence they yearned for. ____________ 'I absolutely adore Circle of Friends - my 'fave Maeve' - and I have returned to read it time and time again' Lorraine Kelly 'If any author can help you survive lockdown, it's Binchy... Sheer bliss from every page' Irish Daily Mail 'I find myself yearning for the rain-soaked watercolour writing of Maeve Binchy [...] Circle of Friends is a good place to start' Guardian Best Comfort Reads 'A beloved classic [...] This nostalgic, coming-of-age tale is always worth another read' Image Reads, 5 Brilliant Novels to Devour Again ____________ Readers love Circle of Friends ... ***** 'I loved this book!! It's so well written and the character development is amazing.' ***** 'This book is the ultimate comfort read for me. A heart-warming, emotionally gratifying & rewarding experience.' ***** 'Highly recommended to all who like character driven books, books with a strong sense of place with a heart warming and uplifting vibe.' ***** 'Still one of my favourite books. Best written book ever.' ***** 'Never before an author managed to keep me awake all night and hours beyond sun rise to finish their novel.'

Author : Douglas Niles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441007287

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Circle at Center by Douglas Niles Pdf

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA