The Stranger

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

eBook - 2012

The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, now in a striking American English translation, The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France’s.”—Chicago Sun-TimesSince it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus’s 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 sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the naked...ness of man faced with the absurd.”Now, in this illuminating translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of The...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Authors
Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
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OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ISBN9780307827661
ASINB008QLXSG8
Release Date8/8/2012
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307827661
Release Date8/8/2012