# The Gladiators

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- Authors: [Arthur Koestler](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-koestler)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1999-11-04
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction

## Description

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 .

## Editions

### The Gladiators

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0901-818-6
- Published: 2011-08-19
- Language: en_GB

### The Gladiators

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-981-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1999-11-04
- Language: en_GB