A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past by Albert Camus - ISBN: 9780241752012
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Explore Algeria’s soul: timeless essays on life, place, and mortality.

A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2025

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Summary

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous ‘Nuptials at Tipasa’, one of his earliest works where he developed the themes that would inform his later philosophy: to thrive now, with…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241752012
ISBN-10:0241752019
Author:Albert Camus
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:15 July 2025
Weight:82g
Dimensions:181mm x 112mm x 7mm
Series:Penguin Archive
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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