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The Stranger
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $12.00
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $12.00
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. Read more >
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The Plague
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Read more >
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
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The Fall
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.00
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.00
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. Read more >
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The Stranger
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 23, 1993
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
Possessing both the force of a parable and the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 23, 1993
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
Possessing both the force of a parable and the... Read more >
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Happy Death
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $14.00
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $14.00
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he... Read more >
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The Rebel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $13.95
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $13.95
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the... Read more >
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: August 17, 2004
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: August 17, 2004
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of... Read more >
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Exile and the Kingdom
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally... Read more >
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $15.00
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The First Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute... Read more >
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Lyrical and Critical Essays
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1970
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1970
Price: $15.00
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Caligula and Three Other Plays
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1962
Price: $10.36
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1962
Price: $10.36
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The Stranger
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1988
Price: $26.95
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1988
Price: $26.95
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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