Product Description

`One of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it' New Statesman

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20194 in Books
• Published on: 1994-12-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
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.

From the Publisher
'One of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it' New Statesman

About the Author
Arthur Koestler:
Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905. He attended the university of Vienna before working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Berlin and Paris. For six years he was an active member of the Communist Party, and was captured by Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he came to England. He died in 1983 by suicide, having frequently expressed a belief in the right to euthanasia.