Cancer ward

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state."Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, "The Magic Mountain "by Thomas Mann, 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
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Grouping Titlecancer ward
Grouping Authoraleksandr isaevich solzhenit s yn
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Bethell, Nicholas, 1938-2007
Burg, David
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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
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Burg, David,translator
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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state."Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, "The Magic Mountain "by Thomas Mann, 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
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Fiction
Novels
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9780374534714
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1969
2015
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
Medical novels
Political fiction
Soviet Union -- Fiction
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Cancer ward
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Cancer ward / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg
Cancer ward Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg
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Cancer ward
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Cancer
Patients

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