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A Happy Death by Albert Camus
Category: Classics | 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; Arthur Goldhammer; Alice Kaplan
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 o ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | 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
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
Category: Philosophy | 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
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
Category: Philosophy
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: Classics | 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 Fall by Albert Camus
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over severa ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.