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'''Darkness at Noon''' (Original title ''Sonnenfinsternis'') is a [[dystopian]] novel by [[Arthur Koestler]]. The novel tells the story of Rubashov, a 1917 Revolutionary who is arrested and tried for treason by the [[Soviet]] government during the [[Moscow Show trials]] of 1938.
The novel vividly describes the horror of the Stalinist purges, and served as an inspiration for [[George Orwell]]'s [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]. Orwell also wrote an essay on the novel, titled ''Arthur Koestler''.<ref>http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part21.html</ref>
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The novel vividly describes the horror of the Stalinist purges, and served as an inspiration for [[George Orwell]]'s [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]. Orwell also wrote an essay on the novel, titled ''Arthur Koestler''.<ref>http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part21.html</ref>
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