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ARROW IN THE BLUE by KOESTLER ARTHUR
Category: Biography
Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography. It covers the first 26 years of his life and ends with his joining the Communist Party in 1931, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived ...Show more
Arrow in the Blue: The First Volume of an Autobiography - 1905-31 by Arthur Koestler
Category: Biography Memoir
Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography. It covers the first 26 years of his life and ends with his joining the Communist Party in 1931, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived ...Show more
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler; Philip Boehm (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the ...Show more
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler; Philip Boehm (Translator)
Category: Fiction
THE NEW TRANSLATION BY PHILIP BOEHM Darkness at Noon is the chilling, powerful tale of a Soviet revolutionary who falls foul of the regime to which he has dedicated his life. Published in Great Britain in 1940, it alerted the West to the ugly reality of Stalin's regime. It was feted by George Orwell, w ...Show more
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
N. S. Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government; with outstanding psychological insight, Koestler traces his story through arrest, imprisonment and trail in a classic novel which, when first published, famously drew attention to the nature of Stalin's regime. 'One of the fe ...Show more
Darkness at Noon - A Novel by Arthur Koestler
Category: Classics
The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon--the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule--is now restored and in a completely new translation. Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brillia ...Show more
Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War by Arthur Koestler
Category: Biography Memoir
In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Ou ...Show more
Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler
Category: Travel Literature
A new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France.
The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics
Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of twentieth-century man and his dilemma. Arrow in the Blue ended with his joining the Communist Party and The Invisible Writing covers some of the most important experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestle ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Compass Ser.
This title presents a thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton.
Thirteenth Tribe The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage by Koestler, Arthur
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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