The Stranger Paperback - 1989
by Albert Camus
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In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.
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Details
- Title The Stranger
- Author Albert Camus
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 1989
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0679720200I3N10
- ISBN 9780679720201 / 0679720200
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.45 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.14 cm)
- Reading level 880
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Themes
- Catalog Heading: Classics
- Cultural Region: North Africa
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Murder
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88040378
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus’s extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L‘Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.”
Now, in an illuminating new American translation (the only English version available for more than forty years was done by a British translator), the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate, as Matthew Ward captures in exact and lucid language precisely what Camus said and how he said it, thus giving this haunting novel a new life for generations to come (from publisher).
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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.