The First Circle

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction

notice: "in the first circle" and "the first circle": "in the first circle" is 200pp longer; "the first circle" is a censored and abridged version.set in moscow during a three-day period in december 1949, 'the first circle' is the story of the prisoner gleb nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. at the age of thirty-one, nerzhin has survived the war years on the german front and the postwar years in...