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Franklin Library leather edition of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's "The Oak and the Calf: Memoirs of a Literary Life, Translated by Harry Willetts, Fontispiece portrait by M. Schottland, a Limited edition, one of THE FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1980. Bound in navy blue leather, the book has navy blue moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edge---in FINE condition. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, who lived from 1918-2008, was a Soviet dissent and outspoken critic of communism. He helped to raise awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union. "T he Oak and the Calf " is a memoir that So lzhenitsyn began writing when he was 49 years old. The memoir contains a detailed account of the publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. " It also describes Solzhenitsyn's failed attempts to publish his other early novels, "Cancer War" and "The First Circle," and t he political storm caused by his 1970 NOBEL PRIZE for literature and his subsequent exile from the Soviet Union. Among Solzhenitsyn's more accessible works, the memoir's reception by critics was mixed. Nevertheless, the book remains an essential source on the life and times of the author. Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 in KISLOVODSK following the death of his father. In 1921, his mother moved to Rostov-on Don and Solzhenitsyn joined her there in 1926. He attended school and studied physics and mathematics at Rostov State University. At the same time, he studied literature and history by correspondence courses run by the Moscow University Institute of Philosophy. During WORLD WAR II , Solzhenitsyn served as the commander in the Red Army and was involved in major action at the front, for which he was twice-decorated. In 1945, he was arrested for criticizing JOSEPH STALIN'S conduct of the war in letters to a friend. He was sentenced to eight years in the GULAG . He was released in 1953 and pardoned in 1957. He later moved to Ryazan, near Moscow, to work as a mathematics teacher. Following Khrushchev's fall from power, the political climate in the Soviet Union hardened and the "thaw" in literary censorship ended under LEONID BREZHEV. In 1963, Solzhenitsyn published three more novellas, the last of his works to be published in the Soviet Union until 1990. " The Oak and the Calf" covers the period from the publication of " One Day" to Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974. 550 pages---including an Appendixes----a RARE title. I offer Combined shipping.
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