The Worlds of Arthur Koestler
It is twenty-seven years since DARKNESS AT NOON stamped its indelible imprint. Its author is now in his sixty-fourth year, and his publishers are honoring him with a uniform edition of his works to date. Here Oscar Maudlin reviews the intellectual development of a man whose life has led him back repeatedly to three themes: “ the consequences of man’s will to transform society; the nature of his place in the world; and his capacity for rational understanding and action.” Mr. Maudlin, Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard, author of eighteen books, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1952, is at work on a biography of Abraham Lincoln.