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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Published in 1963

“At five o’clock that morning reveille was sounded, as usual, by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters. The intermittent sounds barely penetrated the windowpanes on which the frost lay two fingers thick, and they ended almost as soon as they’d begun. It was cold outside, and the campguard was reluctant to go on beating the reveille for long.”

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