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The Stranger

Introduction by Keith Gore

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus
Introduction by Keith Gore
Translated by Matthew Ward

By Albert Camus
Introduction by Keith Gore
Translated by Matthew Ward

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $15.00

Mar 13, 1989 | ISBN 9780679720201

Hardcover $24.00

Feb 23, 1993 | ISBN 9780679420262

Ebook $11.99

Aug 08, 2012 | ISBN 9780307827661

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    About The Stranger

    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 Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.

    Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd” and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. 

    “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

    First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

    About The Stranger

    With the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller and the force of a parable, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century.

    Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a murder in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with an almost scientific clarity, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. 

    About The Stranger

    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 Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.

    Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd” and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. 

    “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

    First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

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    About 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car… More about Albert Camus

    About 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car… More about Albert Camus

    About 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car… More about Albert Camus

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 13, 1989 | 144 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679720201

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Feb 23, 1993 | 152 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679420262

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 08, 2012 | 144 Pages | ISBN 9780307827661
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    “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

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1957

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