Darkness at noon

Originally published in 1941 Arthur Koestlers modern masterpiece DarknessAt Noon is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionarycaught in the v... » 

Originally published in 1941 Arthur Koestlers modern masterpiece DarknessAt Noon is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionarycaught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. DuringStalins purges Nicholas Rubashov an aging revolutionary is imprisoned andpsychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Undermounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit Rubashov relives acareer that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorshipthat believes it is an instrument of liberation. A seminal work of twentiethcentury literature Darkness At Noon is a penetrating exploration of themoral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by anymeans necessary. «