The Stranger

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Vintage Books, 1946 - Literary Collections - 154 pages
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Meursault, an ordinary little clerk living in Algiers, leads a quiet and unemotional life. He commits a senseless murder and is convicted, his lack of emotion toward his mother's death weighing against him. As he contemplates his execution, he considers the value of life and is on the verge of exhibiting feeling.

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Page 66
... first thing was to get the men out of the way. So we went out together, the three
of us. The light was almost vertical and the glare from the water seared one's
eyes. The beach was quite deserted now. One could hear a faint tinkle of knives
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"Yes, and I told her you'd take him back the moment you got out? but she wouldn't
hear of it." Marie shouted across the gap that Raymond sent me his best wishes,
and I said, 'Thanks." But my voice was drowned by my neighbor's, asking "if he ...
Page 142
Still, I must say I was lucky in one respect; never during any of those periods did I
hear footsteps. Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always
something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and ...

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Contents

Section 1
30
Section 2
44
Section 3
59
Copyright

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About the author (1946)

Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.

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TitleThe Stranger
A Vintage book, V-2
Vintage literature
AuthorAlbert Camus
Translated byStuart Gilbert
Editionreprint
PublisherVintage Books, 1946
ISBN0394700023, 9780394700021
Length154 pages
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