The StrangerThrough 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 English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. |
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Page 65
... told him " it was fine " here , and he agreed . Presently Marie came back . I raised my head to watch her approach . She was glistening with brine and holding her hair back . Then she lay down beside me , and what with the combined ...
... told him " it was fine " here , and he agreed . Presently Marie came back . I raised my head to watch her approach . She was glistening with brine and holding her hair back . Then she lay down beside me , and what with the combined ...
Page 119
... told them how kind I'd always been to his dog , or when , in answer to a question about my mother and myself , he said that Mother and I had very little in common and that explained why I'd fixed up for her to enter the Home . " You've ...
... told them how kind I'd always been to his dog , or when , in answer to a question about my mother and myself , he said that Mother and I had very little in common and that explained why I'd fixed up for her to enter the Home . " You've ...
Page 150
... told him . Everybody has that wish at times . But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich , or to swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth . It was in the same order of things . I was going on in the same vein ...
... told him . Everybody has that wish at times . But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich , or to swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth . It was in the same order of things . I was going on in the same vein ...
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