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But the first blackout has made the great difference. Darkness fell impartially upon all, the Shirley Temples and the Sadie Smiths, Dietrichs and Doakeses.... Groups gathered at street corners to reprimand motorists who drove with lights. In the quiet of almost absolute night, this city of klieg lights and neon...
Darkness at Noon ($2), Arthur Koestler's coldly incandescent novel about the ultimate moral dilemma of Russian purgers and purged;
In part this inadequacy was due to the vertigo natural to the human brain in earthquakes. In part it was due to the fact that it was impossible to give all the answers when some of the basic questions were still to be asked. The chief value that remained to...
The shaky old Marshal did not even know where he was going as his train chuffed out of the Vichy station and, gathering speed, bored through the darkness toward Occupied France. Feeling the chilled air of winter seeping through the window sashes and around the drawn curtains of his car...
In August 1939, Koestler was also living in the south of France and working on his brilliant novel about the Russian blood purges, Darkness at Noon. He had never loved France quite so much as then, never been so "achingly conscious of its sweetness and decay." He was a young...