Albert Camus - The Stranger

Pages: 123, Paperback, Vintage

(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 excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century. Translated by Matthew Ward

(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 excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century. Translated by Matthew Ward

Pages: 123, Paperback, Vintage

Pages: 160, Hardcover, Everyman's Library

Introduction by Peter Dunwoody; Translation by Matthew Ward

Pages: 160, Hardcover, Everyman's Library

Pages: 144, Hardcover, Knopf

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 he termed the nakedness of man faced with the absurd. Now, in an illuminating new American translation (the only English version available for more than forty years was done by a British translator), the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate, as Matthew Ward captures in exact and lucid language precisely what Camus said and how he said it, thus giving this haunting novel a new life for generations to come. Albert Camus, son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at Various jobs -- in the weather bureau, in an automobile- accessory firm, in a shipping company -- to help pay for his courses

Pages: 144, Hardcover, Knopf

Pages: 123, School & Library Binding, San Val