num_pages: 211
description: Set in the 1930s at the height of the purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon is a haunting portrait of an aging revolutionary, Nicholas Rubashov, who is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearings by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and betrayals of a merciless totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
language: English
title: Darkness at Noon
titlecomplete: Darkness at Noon
characters: Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov
genres: Fiction, Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Russia, Dystopia
ratings_count: 29782
publisher: Penguin Books