Cancer ward
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language:
English
Description
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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ISBN:
9780374534714
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Grouping Title | cancer ward |
Grouping Author | aleksandr isaevich solzhenit s yn |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-03-27 21:10:18PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-03-28 22:43:34PM |
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Bethell, Nicholas, 1938-2007
Burg, David
Burg, David
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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
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Bethell, Nicholas,1938-2007,translator
Burg, David,translator
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
Novels
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9780374534714
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1969
2015
2015
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
Medical novels
Political fiction
Soviet Union -- Fiction
Medical novels
Political fiction
Soviet Union -- Fiction
title_display
Cancer ward
title_full
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
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
Patients
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