Arthur Koestler
Born
in Budapest, Hungary
September 05, 1905
Died
March 01, 1983
Genre
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Darkness at Noon
291 editions
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published
1940
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The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
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41 editions
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published
1959
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The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage
59 editions
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published
1976
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The Ghost in the Machine
39 editions
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published
1967
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Scum of the Earth
32 editions
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published
1941
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The Act of Creation
40 editions
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published
1964
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Dialogue with Death
41 editions
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published
1937
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Arrival and Departure
74 editions
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published
1943
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ROOTS OF COINCIDENCE
19 editions
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published
1972
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The Gladiators
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79 editions
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published
1939
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“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
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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.”
― Darkness at Noon
― Darkness at Noon
Polls
February 2020 New School Group Read
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 1940, 359 pages
Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 349 pages
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, 182 pages
Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 1960, 325 pages
Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 1928, 192 pages
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 1940, 216 pages
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