Cancer ward
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
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2015 paperback edition
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560 pages ; 21 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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9780374534714, 0374534713

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Translation of: Rakovyĭ korpus (romanized form)
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"Published in English in 1969 in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; first Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition, 1974; this paperback edition 2015"--Title page verso
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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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APA Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, A. I., Bethell, N., & Burg, D. (2015). Cancer ward. 2015 paperback edition New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, Nicholas Bethell and David, Burg. 2015. Cancer Ward. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, Nicholas Bethell and David, Burg, Cancer Ward. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, et al. Cancer Ward. 2015 paperback edition New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

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