Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler; Daphne Hardy (trans)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Impressive Folio Society edition of Koestler's allegorical 1940 novel on Stalin's purges and trials of bolsheviks. Handsome three quarter cloth binding with b/w wood engravings by George Buday. With an introduction by Vladimir Bukovsky. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has toning. Volume is clean and tight. Very good.
Synopsis
Darkness at Noon is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work, it tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik old guard and 1917 revolutionary who is first cast out and then imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he once helped create. The novel is set in 1938 during the Stalinist purges and Moscow show trials.
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- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007635
- Title
- Darkness at Noon
- Author
- Arthur Koestler; Daphne Hardy (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- attractive_bindings, fiction, ww2, wwii, nazi, communist, prison, oppression, russia, germany, fascism, communism
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Folio Society;
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