{"product_id":"darkness-at-noon-by-arthur-koestler","title":"'Darkness at Noon' by Arthur Koestler","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"6\" data-end=\"304\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"336\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eDarkness at Noon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e is one of the great political novels of the twentieth century: cold, claustrophobic, and still nasty in all the right ways. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6\" data-end=\"304\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eKoestler follows Rubashov, an ageing revolutionary imprisoned by the regime he once helped build, as he is interrogated, broken down, and forced to confront the logic of ideology taken to its terminal end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"1203\"\u003eThe novel is rooted in the Great Purge and Moscow show trials, but Koestler keeps the setting slightly abstract, which gives the whole thing a more general and sinister force: this is a book about confession, power, moral compromise, and the machinery of belief when it starts eating its own children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6\" data-end=\"304\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Modern Classics paperback, reissued 1964, reprinted 1965. A nice Penguin Modern Classics copy in good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283039187027,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-29T110503.259.png?v=1774742718","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/darkness-at-noon-by-arthur-koestler","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}