Despite persecution and censorship in his homeland, this Russian writer has been able to produce such important works as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago. This title, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.