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In the first circle, a novel : the restored text, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Harry T. Willetts

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In the first circle

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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Harry T. Willetts

a novel : the restored text

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. --from publisher description

Introduction, by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. -- Characters -- Author's Note -- 1. Torpedo -- 2. A Miscue -- 3. Sharashka -- 4. A Protestant Christmas -- 5. Boogie-Woogie -- 6. A Peaceful Existence -- 7. A Woman's Heart -- 8. "Oh, Moment, Stay!" -- 9. The Fifth Year in Harness -- 10. The Rosicrucians -- 11. The Enchanted Castle -- 12. Number Seven -- 13. He Should Have Lied -- 14. The Blue Light -- 15. A Girl! A Girl! -- 16. A Troika of Liars -- 17. Hot Water -- 18. "Oh, Wonder-Working Steed" -- 19. The Birthday Hero -- 20. A Study of a Great Life -- 21. Give Us Back the Death Penalty! -- 22. The Emperor of the Earth -- 23. Language as an Instrument of Production -- 24. The Abyss Beckons Again -- 25. The Church of Nikita the Martyr -- 26. Sawing Wood -- 27. A Bit of Methodology -- 28. The Junior Lieutenant's Job -- 29. The Lieutenant Colonel's Job -- 30. A Puzzled Robot -- 31. How to Darn Sock -- 32. On the Path to a Million -- 33. Penalty Marks -- 34. Voice Prints -- 35. Kissing Is Forbidden -- 36. Phonoscopy -- 37. The Silent Alarm -- 38. Be Unfaithful to Me! -- 39. Fine Words, Those, "to the Taiga!" -- 40. A Rendezvous -- 41. And Another One -- 42. And Among the Kids -- 43. A Woman Was Washing the Staircase -- 44. Out in the Open -- 45. The Running Dogs of Imperialism -- 46. The Castle of the Holy Grail -- 47. Top-Secret Conversation -- 48. The Double Agent -- 49. Life Is Not a Novel -- 50. The Old Maid -- 51. Fire and Hay -- 52. To the Resurrection of the Dead! -- 53. The Ark -- 54. Leisure Amusements -- 55. Prince Igor -- 56. Winding Up the Twentieth -- 57. Prisoners' Petty Matters -- 58. A Banquet of Friends -- 59. The Buddha's Smile -- 60. But We Are Given Only One Conscience, Too -- 61. The Uncle at Tver -- 62. Two Sons-in-Law -- 63. The Diehard -- 64. Entered Cities First -- 65. A Duel Not by the Rules -- 66. Going to the People -- 67. Spiridon -- 68. Spiridon's Criterion -- 69. Behind a Closed Visor -- 70. Dotty -- 71. Let's Agree That This Didn't Happen -- 72. Civic Temples -- 73. A Circle of Wrongs -- 74. Monday Dawn -- 75. Four Nails -- 76. Favorite Profession -- 77. The Decision Taken -- 78. The Professional Party Secretary -- 79. The Decision Explained -- 80. One Hundred and Forty-Seven Rubles -- 81. The Scientific Elite -- 82. Indoctrination in Optimism -- 83. The King of Stool Pigeons -- 84. As for Shooting ... -- 85. Prince Kurbsky -- 86. No Fisher of Men -- 87. At the Fount of Science -- 88. The Leading Ideology -- 89. Little Quail -- 90. On the Back Stairway -- 91. Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here -- 92. Keep Forever -- 93. Second Wind -- 94. Always Caught Off-Guard -- 95. Farewell, Sharashka -- 96. Meat