The Stranger - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Albert Camus (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Originally published in French as L'Etranger by Librairie Gallimard, France in 1942"--Copyright page.

Book Synopsis

The ultimate masterpiece from Nobel Prize Winner Albert Camus--one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century--presented here in stunning hardcover.

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. With the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller and the force of a parable, The Stranger explores what Camus termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Review Quotes

A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

"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

About the Author

Born in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published The Stranger--now one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.