# The Gladiators

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- Book: [The Gladiators](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-koestler/the-gladiators) ([The Gladiators.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-koestler/the-gladiators.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Koestler](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-koestler)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-981-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1999-11-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 .