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Author
Series
Vintage book volume V-207
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
CALIGULA, an attractive prince, upon the death of his sister and mistress, tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to practice a liberty that he will eventually discover not to be the right one. THE MISUNDERSTANDING is about a son who expects to be recognized without having to declare his name and who is killed by his mother and his sister as the result of the misunderstanding. STATE OF SIEGE is an allegorical drama about...
2) The plague
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small coastal city of Iran, Algeria, rats begin rising from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. And just as mysteriously as it appeared, the rodent problem seems to vanish. Shortly after, however, many local residents experience intense fevers and then perish--victims of the unseen menace of the bubonic plague. And as life in the town comes to a halt, the survivors attempt to come to terms with their own mortality and the...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 278
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence,...
10) El extranjero
Author
Publisher
Buque de lettras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Originally published in 1942, The Stranger is Albert Camus's first novel and one of his most iconic works. Now with a new Spanish translation by Mar̕a Teresa Gallego Urrutia and Amaya Garc̕a Gallego, this capital book for the culture of the 20th century takes place in Algeria and narrates the anodyne life of Meursault, a young office worker who lives in perpetual apathy. When he receives the news of his mother's passing, he meets her with the utmost...
11) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a parable and the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers...
Author
Publisher
Edition Olms
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Using selected texts, photographs, and previously unpublished documents, Catherine Camus takes readers through the fascinating life and work of her father, Albert Camus, who, in his defense of the individual, also saw himself as the voice of the downtrodden. Writer, journalist, philosopher, playwright, and producer, he was a shining defender of freedom, whose art and person were dedicated to serving the dignity in humanity.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Explores the predominant themes in the work of Albert Camus and what they reveal about his character, portraying the author as a clear-eyed moralist who favored principled, if ultimately hopeless, rebellion.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis, ascended to prominent, dangerous roles, and were very lucky to survive. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate...
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