Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this ...
Continue Reading →The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not ...
Continue Reading →Part of the Penguin Classics campaign celebrating 100 years of Albert Camus, ‘A Sea Close By’ reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, ...
Continue Reading →Set in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories in this masterful collection reveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for ...
Continue Reading →With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus’s masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an ...
Continue Reading →It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains ...
Continue Reading →An Algerian schoolteacher develops a strange alliance with the Arab prisoner temporarily left in his charge, giving him the chance to select his own destiny. ...
Continue Reading →“Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus’s three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical ...
Continue Reading →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 ...
Continue Reading →Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus’s astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major ...
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