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  The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) (Hardback) By (author) Albert Camus, Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Translated by Justin O'Brien, Introduction by David Bellos

  

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  Short Description for The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected EssaysOnce overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an...
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  • Publisher: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
  • Published: 05 August 2004
  • Format: Hardback 704 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry)
  • ISBN 13: 9781857152784 ISBN 10: 1857152786
  • Sales rank: 15,218

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• Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own tale of decline and self-discovery, Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which reflect on the themes developed in the fiction.