Mass Market Paperback
(Signet Classics, Feb. 1, 1963)
Signet (1963). 10th printing. Paperback. A brutally graphic picture of life in a Stalinist work camp and a moving tribute to man's will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Solzhenitsyn's picture of human life in inhuman conditions. Written from personal experience, it describes in detail the day of a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp.