Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched...
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryâtwo novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913â1960) de-pl...
"From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in...
The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man'...
Le manuscrit inachevé du roman auquel travaillait Camus pendant les dernières années de sa vie. Dans sa rédaction initiale, il a un caractère autobiographique qui aurait disparu dans sa version finale. En annexe, un carn...
Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than...
From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own, with the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood steeped in poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the beauty of Algeria and...
The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood.Â
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger âCamus's masterpieceâgives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction...
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR ⢠One of the most widely read novels of all timeâfrom one of the best-known writers of all timeâabout a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human...