TY - BOOK N2 - The First Circle of Dante's Hell--where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity--stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions of Stalin's Russia. AB - The First Circle of Dante's Hell--where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity--stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions of Stalin's Russia. T1 - The first circle / AU - Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, AU - Whitney, Thomas P., ET - [1st ed.]. CN - PG3488.O4 CN - PG3488.O4 LA - eng LA - Translation of V kruge pervom. ID - 1387205 KW - Political persecution KW - Political persecution. KW - Politics and government TI - The first circle / ER -