The cancer ward
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New York : Dial Press, 1968.
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616 pages ; 24 cm
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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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Translation of Rakovyi korpus (romanized form)

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APA Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, A. I. (1968). The cancer ward. Dial Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. 1968. The Cancer Ward. Dial Press.

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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, The Cancer Ward. Dial Press, 1968.

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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich. The Cancer Ward. Dial Press, 1968.

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