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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- 19365
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Darkness At Noon
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Published Dec. 13, 1944 by JONATHAN CAPE.
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- 978-1-199-32817-5Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
267 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1987 by Macmillan.
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- 978-0-02-565210-1Copied ISBN!
Darkness at Noon
272 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2019 by Scribner.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9821-2373-4Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
276 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1973 by Hutchinson.
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- 978-0-09-114610-8Copied ISBN!
Darkness at Noon
224 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2020 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-319-6Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1964 by Penguin, in association with Cape.
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- 978-0-14-000539-4Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1968 by Longmans.
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- 978-0-582-34896-7Copied ISBN!
Darkness at noon
267 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1941 by The Macmillan company.
Darkness at noon
47 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1997 by University of Toronto.
Darkness at noon.
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1951
Sonnenfinsternis
237 pages
German language
Published July 24, 1946 by Atlantis Verlag.
- OCLC Number:
- 26724504
Darkness at noon
222 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1961 by New American Library.
Darkness at noon
191 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1959 by Landsborough.
Darkness at noon
254 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1965 by Jonathan Cape.
Darkness at noon
211 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1968 by Penguin Books in Association with J. Cape.
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