Cancer ward
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
2015 paperback edition.
ISBN
9780374534714, 0374534713
Physical Desc
536 pages ; 21 cm
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Tower Road Branch - Adult Fiction | FICTION SOLZHENI 2015 | In |
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition
2015 paperback edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780374534714, 0374534713
Notes
General Note
Translation of: Rakovyĭ korpus (romanized form).
General Note
"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.
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.
Language
Translated from the Russian.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Solzhenit︠s︡yn, A. I., Bethell, N., & Burg, D. (2015). Cancer ward (2015 paperback edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, Nicholas Bethell and David, Burg. 2015. Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, Nicholas Bethell and David, Burg. Cancer Ward Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, Nicholas Bethell, and David Burg. Cancer Ward 2015 paperback edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
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