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The Fall by Albert Camus
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
The First Man - The Graphic Novel by Albert Camus; Jacques Ferrandez
40.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
This new illustrated of Camus's final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus's own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father's death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | 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 Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 Outsider by Albert Camus
25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' Sandra Smith's new translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Etranger. In "The Outsider" (1942), his classic exi ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus. 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. ...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
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
The Outsider by Albert Camus
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease- some resign themselves to fate, some seek bla ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more