01245cam a2200265 4500 155896103 TxAuBib 20140227120000.0 061027s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781416540267 pbk. 1416540261 pbk. TxAuBib Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983. Darkness at noon / Arthur Koestler ; translated by Daphne Hardy. New York : Scribner, [2006] ix, 273 p. ; 21 cm. Originally published New York : Macmillan Company, 1941. Aging revolutionary Nicholas Rubashov is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. 20140227. Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937 Fiction. Political prisoners Fiction. Totalitarianism Fiction. Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Fiction. Hardy, Daphne.