The Lotus and the Robot

Health, Fitness & Dieting

KOESTLER, ARTHUR

Exercise & Fitness

NY MacMillan 1960

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 and Departure

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan

Darkness at Noon

"Darkness at Noon is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create. The novel is set in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the USSR, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship". Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Soviet Union's version of Communism at the outset of World War II. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century." (Ground Zero Books)

Literary

Scribner

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.

United States

Arthur Koestler's first novel, set in the late Roman Republic, tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man's search for Utopia. The first of three novels concerned with the 'ethics of revolution', it addresses the age-old debate of whether the end justifies the means, an argument continued in his classic novels Darkness at Noon and Arrival and Departure.

The Gladiators

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Macmillan Company

Fiction novel. Set in Palestine where Jews, Arabs, British officials and an American journalist all take part in conflicting forces. The objective is to establish a agricultural commune in Palestine. Story revolves around the resistance met during this attempt. All the elements are present; racism, love, torture, marriage, disillusionment and terrorism. Written in 1946 and sounds all too familiar to the recent years.

Thieves in the Night: Chronicle of an Experiment (Danube Edition)

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Religion & Spirituality

Hutchinson

Gladiators

Classics

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

Dialogue With Death

Biographies & Memoirs

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Rebound by library.This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.No dust jacket.

The Ghost in the Machine

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