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By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9780141394534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dissects the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. The author shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.


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By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9780099515418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1999
UK Publication Date: 4th November 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology.


(Paperback)

By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9780099459811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Arthur Koestler's first novel, set in the late Roman Republic, tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man's search for Utopia.


(Paperback)

By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9781784876173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny.


(Paperback)

By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9780099424918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1995
UK Publication Date: 1st December 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9781784873196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript.


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By: Arthur Koestler

ISBN: 9780099490685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life.