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.
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….
Language  | English  | 
Genre  | Novels + stories | 
Author  | Albert Camus  | 
Number of pages  | 144 | 
Book cover  | Paperback | 
Year  | 1989 | 
Item number  | 7410070 | 
Publisher  | Penguin Random House | 
Category  | Fiction | 
Manufacturer no.  | 9780679720201 | 
Release date  | 13.3.1989 | 
Sales rank in Category Fiction  | 686 of 288287 | 
Genre  | Novels + stories | 
Language  | English  | 
Author  | Albert Camus  | 
Number of pages  | 144 | 
Edition  | 1 | 
Book cover  | Paperback | 
Year  | 1989 | 
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Climate contribution  | 
Height  | 201 mm | 
Width  | 130 mm | 
Weight  | 145 g | 
Length  | 20.70 cm | 
Width  | 13.30 cm | 
Height  | 1.20 cm | 
Weight  | 140 g | 
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