The Outsider
$35.10
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
Twentieth-Century Classics
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In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241862650 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241862655 |
| Author: | Albert Camus, Sandra Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 135mm x 206mm |
| Series: | Twentieth-Century Classics |
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighborhood 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.
Sandra Smith
Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.
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