Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983. Darkness at noon

found: Darkness at noon, 1980:title page (Arthur Koestler; translated by Daphne Hardy)

found: Wikipedia, October 16, 2017(Darkness at Noon; 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 had helped to create; Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon as the second part of a trilogy: the first volume was The Gladiators (1939), first published in Hungarian; the third novel was Arrival and Departure (1943); Koestler, who was by then living in London, wrote that novel in English; Darkness at Noon was written in German while Koestler was living in Paris; Koestler's companion, the sculptor Daphne Hardy, translated it into English during early 1940 while she was living in Paris with him)