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Darkness at Noon

By Arthur Koestler

Book information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2006
ISBN
1416540261, 9781416540267
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
54 MB (57129721 bytes)
Pages
288\284
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-03-02 20:02:06

Description

Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.A seminal work of twentieth-century literature,Darkness At Noon is a penetrating exploration of the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary.

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