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A Happy Death by Albert Camus
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus' astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenti ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
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Category: Fiction | 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
Exile & The Kingdom by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
LEGO Star Wars: 500 Stickers by Camus Albert & Smith Sandra (trans)
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Category: Activity | Series: Lego Star Wars
Welcome to the amazing world of LEGO Star Wars(TM)! This awesome activity book is full of pictures to colour, missions to complete and over 500 re-usable stickers! Enjoy solving the puzzles and using the stickers as you travel through the galaxy. Then when youve finished, peel off the stickers and use t ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' ...Show more
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
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Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...' This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pr ...Show more
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.' Camus' writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity. These three powerful and evocative stories are ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall is ...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