TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koestler,Arthur
AU  - Hardy,Daphne
AU  - Browne,Harry
TI  - Darkness at noon
T2  - The Heritage of literature series, section B, no. 96. Modern classics
AV  - PZ3.K8194PR6021.O4 Da5
U1  - 823/.912 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - 1925-1953
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Legal stories
N1  - Bibliography: p. 239-241
N2  - Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, 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
ER  -