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A Happy Death by Albert Camus
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus' astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenti ...Show more
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus
Category: Biography
More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus' most political works--an exploration ...Show more
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus; Arthur Goldhammer; Alice Kaplan
Category: Classic
More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus "Algerian Chronicles" appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus most political works an exploration o ...Show more
Camus at "Combat" by Albert Camus
Category: Culture
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Pengu ...Show more
Exile & The Kingdom by Albert Camus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 b ...Show more
Exile and the Kingdom -(Adulterous Wife, Renegade, Voiceless, Guest, Jonas & Growing Stone) by Albert Camus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International
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 b ...Show more
L' Etranger by Albert Camus
Category: Fiction | Series: Folio S.
Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monte vers moi, le silence, et cette singuliere sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constate que le jeune journaliste avait detourne les yeux.... Through the story of an ordinary man unwitting ...Show more
Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The Myth of Sisyphus First English edition Author Albert Camus Original title Le Mythe de Sisyphe Country France Language French Genre Philosophical essay, Existentialism, Absurdism Publisher French: Gallimard English: Hamish Hamilton Publication date 1942 Published in English 1955 ISBN 0-67 ...Show more