Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create. The novel is …
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Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create. The novel is set in 1939 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship". Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Bolshevik ideology of the Soviet Union at the outset of World War II. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, even though Koestler wrote it in German.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 19365
- Goodreads:
- 30672
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Darkness At Noon
Paperback, 216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1966 by Bantam.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-13187-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 17425465
Sonnenfinsternis
Hardcover, 255 pages
German language
Published Dec. 12, 2018 by Elsinor Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-942788-40-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1045041670
- Goodreads:
- 42405962
Darkness at Noon
School & Library Binding
English language
Published Oct. 13, 1999 by Rebound by Sagebrush.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8085-7636-5Copied ISBN!
Darkness at Noon
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published Jan. 27, 2015 by Scribner.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4767-8555-4Copied ISBN!
Darkness at Noon
272 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2019 by Scribner.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5011-6131-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1100452479
Darkness at Noon
272 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2019 by Scribner.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5011-6131-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1100452479
Darkness at noon
216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1966 by Bantam Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-11706-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 4258030
Darkness at Noon
288 pages
English language
Published May 14, 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4165-4026-7Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
267 pages
Published July 24, 2006 by Scribner.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-02-565200-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 74491552
Darkness at Noon
224 pages
English language
Published Dec. 30, 1994 by Vintage.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-942491-8Copied ISBN!
Darkness at Noon
224 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2019 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-545-9Copied ISBN!
Sonnenfinsternis.
Hardcover
Published Sept. 1, 2000 by Europa Verlag München.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-203-79150-0Copied ISBN!
Darkness at Noon
Mass Market Paperback, 216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 30, 1984 by Bantam.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-26595-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 30672
Darkness at noon
216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1962 by Time, Inc..
- OCLC Number:
- 1662884
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