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Notebooks, 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
Category: Biography
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his apprecia ...Show more
Notebooks 1942-1951 by Albert Camus
Category: Biography
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his apprecia ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
Plague The by Albert Camus
Category: Fiction
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague. Cut off from the rest of the world, living in fear, they each respond in their own way to the grim challenge of the deadly bacillus. This novel tells a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of huma ...Show more
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' ...Show more
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus
Category: Classic Fiction
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the f ...Show more
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...' This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pr ...Show more
THE OUTSIDER by CAMUS ALBERT
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library
'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply ...Show more
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.' Camus' writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity. These three powerful and evocative stories are ...Show more
The Essential Camus Boxed Set: The Myth of Sisyphus; The Outsider; The Plague; The Rebel by Albert Camus
Category: Classic Fiction
One of the twentieth century's most prominent authors, and a philosopher in his own right, Camus was a major influence on modern existentialist thinking. In this covetable boxed set are gathered together four of his major works, including his most famous novel, "The Outsider".