Darkness at noon.
by Arthur Koestler
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Alvin Theatre the Playwrights' Company presents Claude Rains in "Darkness at Noon," a new play by Sidney Kingsley, based on the novel by Arthur Koestler, with Walter J. Palance, Kim Hunter, associate producer May Kirshner, settings and lighting by Frederick Fox, costumes by Kenn Barr.
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Fiction, History, Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937, Political prisoners, Totalitarianism, Revolution, 1917-1921, Russia, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, legal, Moscow Trials (Russia : 1936-1937) fast (OCoLC)fst01709887, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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1925-1953, Revolution, 1917-1921, 1917-, 1917-1921Showing 7 featured editions. View all 67 editions?
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Edition Notes
Alvin Theatre, week beginning Monday, March 12, 1951.
Title devised by Library staff.
"The playbill for the Alvin Theatre"--Cover.
Cast: Claude Rains, Robert Keith Jr., Philip Coolidge, Richard Seff, Allan Rich, Kim Hunter, Walter J. Palance, Adams MacDonald, Herbert Ratner, Virginia Howard, Johnson Hayes, Alexander Scourby, Norman Roland, Robert Crozier, Daniel Polis, Will Kuluva, Henry Beckman, Geoffrey Barr, Tony Ancona, Lois Nettleton, Maurice Gosfield.
LC copy accompanied by January 21, 1951 newspaper clippings from the New York Herald Tribune with review article by Howard Barnes and New York Times with review article by Brooks Atkinson.
In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).
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Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.
The novel is set in 1939 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship". Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Bolshevik ideology of the Soviet Union at the outset of World War II.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, even though Koestler wrote it in German.
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