The second volume is in Koestler’s own words “a typical case history of a member of the educated middle classes of Central Europe in our time.” We see him in Germany, Russia, England, France and Spain, working for the cause he believed in until his eventual break with Communism in 1938. It ends with his escape from Occupied France in 1940 to England, where he found a new home. An epilogue brings the story up to 1953.

The Invisible Writing

Arthur Koestler

MacMillan Publishing Company

The Lotus and the Robot.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

HarperCollins (paper)

Life After Death is a major effort by some of the world's finest contemporary thinkers to explore the ultimate question that has haunted men's minds since the dawn of time.

Life after death

Science & Math

Arnold J. Toynbee

Nature & Ecology

McGraw-Hill (NY/St. Louis/San Francisco)

An 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 the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.

The sleepwalkers; (Danube edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Hutchinson

While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended--for example, in dreams and trancelike states. All who read The Act of Creation will find it a compelling and illuminating book.

The Act of Creation (The Danube Edition)

Psychology & Counseling

Classic.Koestler provides a thought-provoking argument on the phenomena of extrasensory perception (telepathy, short-term percognition, clairvoyance, etc.). His discussion moves into two fundamental fields of scientific research: sub-atomic physics and parapsychology. A fascinating debate.

Roots Of Coincidence

Self-Help

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Beyond reductionism, new perspectives in the life sciences: [proceedings of] the Alpbach Symposium [1968]; (Radius books)

Koestler examines the notion that the parts of the human brain-structure which account for reason and emotion are not fully coordinated. This kind of deficiency may explain the paranoia, violence, and insanity that are central parts of human history, according to Koestler's challenging analysis of the human predicament.

The ghost in the machine (The Danube edition)

Literature & Fiction

Darkness At Noon

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.

Darkness at Noon

Contemporary

Vintage Books

This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover, in Koestler's own words, 'that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt'.

Arrival & Departure

Vintage

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