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Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Pengu ...Show more
Plague The by Albert Camus
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Category: Young Adult Fiction
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague. Cut off from the rest of the world, living in fear, they each respond in their own way to the grim challenge of the deadly bacillus. This novel tells a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of huma ...Show more
THE OUTSIDER by CAMUS ALBERT
$34.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library
'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over severa ...Show more
The First Man by Albert Camus
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Publish ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drench ...Show more