Arthur Koestler: 19 books

Book cover of Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019

The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—t****he haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation. Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm...
Book cover of Le Cheval dans la locomotive

Le Cheval dans la locomotive

Le paradoxe humain

by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Après Les Somnambules et Le Cri d'Archimède, ce livre d'Arthur Koestler achève sa puissante trilogie « Génie et folie de l'homme ». Dans les deux premiers, il s'agissait des découvertes scientifiques, de l'art, de l'inspiration — tout ce qui fait la grandeur de l'homme. Le troisième, au...
Book cover of Les Somnambules

Les Somnambules

Essai sur l'histoire des conceptions de l'Univers

by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Avec Les Somnambules, Arthur Koestler entame l'œuvre monumentale dans laquelle il analyse la grandeur et les misères de la condition humaine. Les Somnambules, ce sont les hommes de la science — Copernic, Kepler, Brahé, Galilée — qui, progressant péniblement parmi les brouillards des thèses...
Book cover of Des voleurs dans la nuit
by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: September 21, 2016

En 1926, Koestler abandonne ses études et part en Palestine. Ce livre est le fruit de son expérience de pionnier dans la petite communauté agricole socialiste qui sert de cadre à la chronique romancée des personnages hauts en couleur qu’il y rencontre. Au-delà des destinées de ces héros...
Book cover of The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

by Arthur Koestler
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows...
Book cover of Hiéroglyphes
by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: September 8, 2017

"Après avoir évoqué, dans La Corde raide, son adolescence dans une Vienne encore heureuse, la Palestine des premiers kibboutz, la bohème journalistique du Berlin des années 1920, Arthur Koestler fait revivre dans ce volume l'euphorie de son adhésion au communisme, quand les lendemains chantaient...
Book cover of The Trail of the Dinosaur
by Arthur Koestler
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Arthur Koestler's publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests. The Trail of the Dinosaur gathers some of his best-known essays and speeches. The Trail of the Dinosaur , first published in 1955, contains a great deal of Koestler's thinking for the first...
Book cover of Reflections on Hanging
by Arthur Koestler, Edmond Cahn, Sydney Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019

Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author’s own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months...
Book cover of L’Étreinte du crapaud
by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2018

Le 26 septembre 1926, un biologiste autrichien nommé Paul Kammerer se tua d’un coup de revolver. Dans les milieux scientifiques, on considéra ce suicide comme le dénouement d’une bataille tantôt obscure, tantôt scandaleuse, autour des doctrines fondamentales de l’Évolution. Aux disciples...
Book cover of Scum of the Earth
by Arthur Koestler
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012

At the beginning of the Second World War, Koestler was living in the south of France working on Darkness at Noon. After retreating to Paris he was imprisoned by the French as an undesirable alien even though he had been a respected crusader against fascism. Only luck and his passionate energy allowed...
Book cover of Thieves in the Night
by Arthur Koestler
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

Thieves in the Night : Chronicle of an Experiment was written in 1946. Originally intended to be the first of a trilogy, Koestler later concluded that the book stood on its own and plans for further novels made redundant. Based on the author's own experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage...
Book cover of Les Racines du hasard
by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2018

Ce livre est une excursion à la frontière de deux domaines fondamentaux de la recherche : la physique quantique, infra-atomique, d’une part, la parapsychologie, d’autre part. En montrant comment la parapsychologie est devenue scientifiquement respectable, Koestler rappelle qu’aux États-Unis...
Book cover of Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009

Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is...
Book cover of Les Tribulations du camarade Lepiaf
by Arthur Koestler
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2016

Dans ce roman inédit écrit en 1934, Arthur Koestler met en scène des enfants allemands placés dans un foyer français, L’Avenir. Leurs parents, déjà emprisonnés dans les camps de concentration ou eux-mêmes exilés, ont dû se séparer d’eux, ne pouvant plus subvenir à leurs besoins. Ces...
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