The Stranger - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Albert Camus (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published in French as L'Etranger by Librairie Gallimard, France in 1942"--Copyright page.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>With the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller and <b>the force of a parable, </b><i>The Stranger </i>is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century.</b> <p/>Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a murder in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with an almost scientific clarity, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>The Stranger</i> is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward's translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus's stoical anti-hero and -devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity." -from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published <i>The Stranger</i>-now one of the most widely read novels of this century-in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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