Koestler : the indispensable intellectual / Michael Scammell
2010, First Edition. London : Faber. First edition, first printing. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #459331
ISBN: 9780571138531
Physical description; xxi, 689 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Prologue. Family Tree. Pt. ONE A LONG APPRENTICESHIP -- The Author as Journalist (1905-1936) -- ch. One Beginnings -- ch. Two A Budapest Childhood -- ch. Three Rise, Jew, Rise -- ch. Four ZIONIST -- ch. Five A RUNAWAY AND A FUGITIVE -- ch. Six First Steps in Journalism -- ch. Seven Hello to Berlin -- ch. Eight In the Gale of History -- ch. Nine Red Days -- ch. Ten Anti-Fascist Crusader -- ch. Eleven Marking Time -- ch. Twelve Prisoner of Franco -- ch. Thirteen Turning Point -- pt. TWO FAME AND INFAMY -- The Author as Novelist (1936-1946) -- ch. Fourteen The God that Failed -- ch. Fifteen No New Certainties -- ch. Sixteen Darkness visible -- ch. Seventeen Scum of the Earth -- ch. Eighteen Darkness Unveiled -- ch. Nineteen In Crumpled Battledress -- ch. Twenty The Novelist's Temptations -- ch. Twenty-One Identity crisis -- ch. Twenty-Two Commissar Or Yogi? -- ch. Twenty-Three Return to Palestine -- ch. Twenty-Four Welsh Interlude. Note continued: ch. Twenty-Five The logic of the Ice Age -- pt. THREE LOST ILLUSIONS -- The Author as Activist (1946-1959) -- ch. Twenty-Six Adventures Among the Existentialists -- ch. Twenty-Seven French Lessons -- ch. Twenty-Eight Discovering America -- ch. Twenty-Nine Farewell to Zionism -- ch. Thirty A Married Man -- ch. Thirty-One To the Barricades -- ch. Thirty-Two The Congress for Cultural Freedom -- ch. Thirty-Three Back to the USA -- ch. Thirty-Four Politically Unreliable -- ch. Thirty-Five The Language of Destiny -- ch. Thirty-Six The Phantom Chase -- ch. Thirty-Seven I killed Her -- ch. Thirty-Eight Cassandra Grows Hoarse -- ch. Thirty-Nine Matters of Life and Death -- pt. FOUR ASTRIDE THE TWO CULTURES -- The Author as Polymath (1959-1983) -- ch. Forty Cosmic Reporter -- ch. Forty-One The Squire of Alpbach -- ch. Forty-Two Retreat from Rationalism? -- ch. Forty-Three A Naive and Skeptical Disposition -- ch. Forty-Four Seeking a Cure. Note continued: ch. Forty-Five Wunderkind -- ch. Forty-Six Chance Governs All -- ch. Forty-Seven The-koestler Problem -- ch. Forty-Eight An Easy Way of Dying. Subjects; Koestler, Arthur 1905-1983. Koestler, Arthur 1905-1983 Biographies. Koestler, Arthur 1905-1983 Biography. 1900-1999. Novelists, English 20th century ; Biography. Political activists Great Britain ; Biography. Philosophers Great Britain ; Biography. Zionists ; Biography.
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