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
Mass Market Paperback
English language
Published March 1, 1984 by Bantam.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-24459-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 14120866
Darkness at noon
216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1962 by Time, Inc..
- OCLC Number:
- 1662884
Darkness at noon
216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1968 by Bantam Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 576275
Le Zéro et l'Infini
French language
Published 1991 by Librairie générale française.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-00341-0Copied ISBN!
Darkness At Noon
Audio CD
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1999 by Recorded Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7887-3722-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43289631
Darkness At Noon
Audio cassette
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1999 by Recorded Books, LLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7887-3103-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 41477719
Darkness at noon
216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1968 by Bantam Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-20135-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 503705721
Le Zéro et l'infini
French language
Published June 8, 1986 by Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-01651-3Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
254 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1985 by Cape.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-224-02993-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 12479475
Darkness at Noon (Twentieth Century Classics)
Hardcover, 216 pages
Spanish language
Published July 13, 1994 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-018120-3Copied ISBN!
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