- Fiction, History, Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937, Political prisoners
**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.
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- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Arthur Koestler
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Macmillan Co., Longmans, Signet
- Editions
- 119
- Language
- French, Spanish, Polish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781416540267
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“De celdeur sloeg achter Roebasjow dicht.”
Arthur Koestler CBE was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies. He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler
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