The Outsider by Albert Camus - ISBN: 9781857151398
Hardcover
Apathy’s grip: murder, alienation, and a timeless existential thriller.
  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    15 November 1998

Summary

Albert Camus’ laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that this early success was no passing fashion - The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable and the excitement of a thriller and remains one of the most wid…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781857151398
ISBN-10:1857151399
Author:Albert Camus
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:15 November 1998
Weight:263g
Dimensions:210mm x 133mm x 14mm
Series:Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
About The Author

Albert Camus

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger– now one of the most widely read novels of this century– in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

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