One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Statement of responsibility

Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by H.T. Willetts ; with an introduction by John Bayley

Title variation

• Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
• 1 day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Creator

• trueSolzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
• Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008

Contributor

• Willetts, H. T

Subject

• trueCommunism
• Communism -- Fiction
• trueConcentration camps
• Concentration camps -- Soviet Union
• Fiction
• trueForced labor
• Forced labor
• trueForced labor -- Soviet Union
• Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- Fiction
• truePolitical prisoners
• Political prisoners -- Soviet Union
• Soviet Union
• trueSoviet Union
• Soviet Union -- Fiction
• Communism

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• rus
• eng

Summary

One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union

Member of

• Everyman's library, no. 219
• Odin denʹ Ivana Denisovicha

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

891.73/44

Index

no index present

Intended audience

900L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

UG

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

5.5

Series statement

Everyman's library

Series volume

219

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR