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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Albert Camus. Copyright 1942 by Librairie Gallimard as L'Étranger Copyright 1946 by Alfred A. Knopf , Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan - American Copyright Conventions . Published in the United States by Random House ...
Albert Camus. Copyright 1942 by Librairie Gallimard as L'Étranger Copyright 1946 by Alfred A. Knopf , Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan - American Copyright Conventions . Published in the United States by Random House ...
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Albert Camus. part . Just once ! In a way I think that single instance would have satisfied me . My emotion would have done the rest . The papers often talk of " a debt owed to society❞ — a debt which , according to them , must be paid ...
Albert Camus. part . Just once ! In a way I think that single instance would have satisfied me . My emotion would have done the rest . The papers often talk of " a debt owed to society❞ — a debt which , according to them , must be paid ...
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Albert Camus. making a fresh start . There , too , in that Home where lives were flickering out , the dusk came as a mournful solace . With death so near , Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom , ready to start life ...
Albert Camus. making a fresh start . There , too , in that Home where lives were flickering out , the dusk came as a mournful solace . With death so near , Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom , ready to start life ...
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