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"""BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY"" --Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. 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, 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"

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David Case (a.k.a. Frederick Davidson) (1932-2005) was born in London and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He performed in BBC radio plays before coming to America in 1976. The narrator of more than eight hundred audiobooks, he garnered numerous Earphones Awards and a Grammy nomination for his readings. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 1997. After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974.

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