В круге первом (English: First Circle, also published as The First Circle) is a novel by Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the book was published in English in 2009.
Solzhenitsyn first wrote this book with 96 chapters. He felt he could never get this version published in the USSR, so he produced a "lightened" version of 87 chapters. Solzhenitsyn submitted his "lightened" version for publication in the USSR, but it was never accepted. This version was first published abroad in 1968. An English version, was first published in Great Britain by Collins and the Harvill Press in 1968. A paperback edition, still consisting of 87 chapters was published in 1988, translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, Manya Harari and Michael Glenny. The complete 96 chapter version (with some later revisions) was published in Russian by YMCA Press in 1978, and has been published in Russia as part of Solzhenitsyn's complete works. An English translation of the full version was published by Harper Perennial in October 2009, entitled In the First Circle rather than The First Circle.
