The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Narrated by Frederick Davidson

Overview

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20^TH CENTURY.” -Time

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” -George F. Kennan

“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” -David Remnick, The New Yorker

“Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” -Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

Editorial Reviews

Anne Applebaum

Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. ... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.

on Volume II Newsweek

Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. ... A powerful chronicle. ... A testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit.

George F. Kennan

The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.

Time magazine

Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century

David Remnick

It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.

Time Magazine

"Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177597126
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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