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Arthur Koestler

Born

in Budapest, Hungary

September 05, 1905

Died

March 01, 1983

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Politics, Philosophy

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Darkness at Noon (1940), novel of Hungarian-born British writer Arthur Koestler, portrays his disillusionment with Communism; his nonfiction works include The Sleepwalkers (1959) and The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

Arthur Koestler CBE [*Kösztler Artúr] was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies.

He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame.

Over the next forty-three years he espoused ma ...more

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	Darkness at Noon 4.12 avg rating — 34,717 ratings — published 1940 — 376 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler, Herbert Butterfield (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 1,250 ratings — published 1959 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage 3.93 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost in the Machine 4.01 avg rating — 678 ratings — published 1967 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scum of the Earth 4.32 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1941 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dialogue with Death 4.12 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 1937 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Act of Creation 4.25 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 1964 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arrival and Departure 3.68 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 1943 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler, Edith Simon (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 1939 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Roots of Coincidence 3.83 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1972 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Arthur Koestler (?)

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
― Arthur Koestler

tags: creativity

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“Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it--an abstract and geometric love.”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

tags: ethics, satan

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“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”
― Arthur Koestler

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Polls

February 2018 New School Poll

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 260 pages, 1979

58 votes, 17.1%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 316 pages, 1926

50 votes, 14.7%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pages, 1946

44 votes, 13.0%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages, 1994

35 votes, 10.3%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages, 1956

20 votes, 5.9%

The Wreath (book one of Kristin Lavransdatter) by Sigrid Undset, 305 pages, 1920

18 votes, 5.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

16 votes, 4.7%

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, 276 pages, 1918

16 votes, 4.7%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923

15 votes, 4.4%

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, 405 pages, 1991

15 votes, 4.4%

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, 256 pages, 1952

14 votes, 4.1%

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 417 pages, 1915

11 votes, 3.2%

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, 530 pages, 1987

10 votes, 2.9%

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 216 pages, 1940

8 votes, 2.4%

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 453 pages, 1932

8 votes, 2.4%

Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, 357 pages, 1933

1 vote, 0.3%

339 total votes

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