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The Gladiators
Jan 13, 2026 2:02 PM

Author:Arthur Koestler

The Gladiators

Arthur Koestler's first novel, set in the late Roman Republic, tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man's search for Utopia. The first of three novels concerned with the 'ethics of revolution', it addresses the age-old debate of whether the end justifies the means, an argument continued in his classic novels Darkness at Noon and Arrival and Departure.

Reviews

'A brilliantly funny read'

—— Woman's Realm

'Ruthlessly and hilariously frank'

—— New Woman

'A fabulous, funny novel...This wonderful book is essential reading for mothers trying to do it all'

—— Daily Mail

Intense, clear and powerful. The promise, so brilliantly fulfilled in his later work, is clear in this earliest novel

—— Daily Telegraph
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