Arthur Koestler

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Biographical details ▽ Biographical details △

Born
1905

Died
1983

Publications
Novels, journalism

Writing languages
German, English

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Literature

Darkness at Noon (1940)

Novels

Darkness at Noon (1940)

British Literature

Darkness at Noon (1940)

Literary Fiction

Darkness at Noon (1940)

Works published in book form

The Encyclopœdia of Sexual Knowledge, nonfiction, 1933, as "Dr. A. Costler", with Willy Aldor and Ludwig Levy-Lenz

Sexual Anomalies and Perversions, Physical and Psychological Development, Diagnoses and Treatment, nonfiction, c.1935, attributed to Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld

The Adventures of Comrade Cheepy-bird and His Friends in Exile, novel, 1934

Red Days and White Nights, nonfiction, 1934

Spanish Testament, memoir, 1937

The Encyclopœdia of the Family, nonfiction, 1939, with Manès Sperber

The Gladiators, novel, 1939

Darkness at Noon, novel, 1940

Scum of the Earth, memoir, 1941

Dialogue with Death, memoir, 1942 excerpted and revised from Spanish Testament

Arrival and Departure, novel, 1943

Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts, play, 1945

The Yogi and the Commissar, essays, 1945

Thieves in the Night, novel, 1946

Insight and Outlook: An Inquiry into the Common Foundations of Science, Art and Social Ethics, nonfiction, 1949

The God That Failed, essays, 1949, with Louis Fischer, André Gide, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender and Richard Wright

The Age of Longing, novel, 1951

Arrow in the Blue: The First Volume of an Autobiography, 1905–31, memoir, 1952

The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume of an Autobiography, 1932–40, memoir, 1954

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, nonfiction, 1959

The Lotus and the Robot, nonfiction, 1960

The Act of Creation, nonfiction, 1964

The Ghost in the Machinde, nonfiction, 1967

Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955–1967, essays, 1968

The Case of the Midwife Toad, nonfiction, 1971

The Roots of Coincidence, nonfiction, 1972

The Call-Girls, novel, 1972

The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973, essays, 1974

The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage, nonfiction, 1976

Janus: A Summing Up, nonfiction, 1978

Kaleidoscope, essays, 1981

Stranger on the Square, memoir, with Cynthia Koestler, 1984

The Adventures of Comrade Cheepy-bird and His Friends in Exile, novel, 2013, written in 1934

 

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