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The Stranger
  • Published: 15 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780679720201
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $34.00

The Stranger

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Through 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 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
  • Published: 15 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780679720201
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $34.00
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About the author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.

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Also by Albert Camus

The Outsider
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Plague: Popular Penguins
Reflections on the Guillotine
A Happy Death
The Fall
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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Praise for The Stranger

“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and ­devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” –from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie