Albert Camus
 
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy and then went to work in Paris as a journalist. His play Caligula appeared in 1939. He established an international reputation with books such as The Outsider, The Plague, The Just and The Fall and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was killed in a road accident in 1960. His last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994.

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The Stranger

The Stranger by Matthew Ward, Albert Camus

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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.
The Plague

The Plague by Albert Camus

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This is a book translated by Stuart Gilbert.
The Outsider

The Outsider by James Laredo, Albert Camus

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Meursault leads an unremarkable, bachelor life in Algiers. But his sudden involvement in a violent confrontation throws him into turmoil as he is forced to question the fundamental values of society. Camus creates a world without a God but a society that is still subject to restrictive, man-made rules capable of...
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Matthew Ward

Matthew Ward

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The Stranger

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Audience Literary Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3

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Shadow and Flame

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Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells

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The Fashion System
Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

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War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

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I Don't Believe in Atheists

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The Middle East Peace Process

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What Every Person Should Know about War
Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago

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Blindness

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The Gospel according to Jesus Christ

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All the Names

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The Cave

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Death with Interruptions
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