The Stranger
Paperback / softback
Main Details
| Title |
The Stranger
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Albert Camus
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| Series | Vintage International |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:144 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 132 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780679720201
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| Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Random House USA Inc
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| Imprint |
Vintage Books
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| Publication Date |
13 March 1989 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
Author Biography
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.
ReviewsA 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
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