β Scribed by Arthur Koestler
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The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noonβt****he haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian ruleβis now restored and in a completely new translation.
Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic.
In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over 30 languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II.
In 2015, Matthias WeΓel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: "Koestler, Arthur....
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