The Stranger (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

The Stranger (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he

Plague (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Reflections on the Guillotine (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great

The Outsider - Albert Camus

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

Outsider (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Fall (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Personal Writings (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Committed Writings (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Quantum Mechanics and Experience (Albert David Z.)(Paperback)

The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question

Algerian Chronicles (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus' most political works--an

Exil Et Le Royaume (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

Myth of Sisyphus (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Fall (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an

Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction (Gloag Oliver)(Paperback)

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the

Plague (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats,

El Mito de Sisifo (Spansih Edition) (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

El mito de Sisifo es un ensayo filosofico de Albert Camus, originalmente publicado en frances en 1942 como Le Mythe de Sisyphe. El ensayo se abre con la siguiente cita de Pindaro: No te afanes, alma mia, por una vida inmortal, pero agota el ambito de lo posible. El titulo del ensayo proviene de un

The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - An internationally acclaimed author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on

Plague (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

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. This title tells the story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human

L'etranger (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singuliere sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constaté que le jeune journaliste avait détourné les yeux. Je n'ai pas regardé du côté de Marie. Je

Neither Victims Nor Executioners: An Ethic Superior to Murder (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

The reissue of Camus' seminal essay, 'Neither Victims nor Executioners, ' could hardly be more timely. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the hideous march to oblivion goes on apace. America is ironically reversing the ethic proposed by Camus' title. American adventuring, playing the part of omnipotent

Autobiographical Notes (Einstein Albert)(Paperback)

Delivered with warmth, clarity, and humor, this brief work is the closest Einstein ever came to writing an autobiography. Although a very personal account, it is concerned solely with the development of his ideas, saying little about his private life or about the world-shaking events through which

The Fall (Camus Albert)(Paperback)

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR - One of the most widely read novels of all time--from one of the best-known writers of all time--about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition. Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a

Albert Camus (Hughes Edward J.)(Paperback)

Winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize 2015 Few figures of twentieth-century French culture carry such an air of romance and intrigue as Albert Camus. Though his life was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960, when he was just forty-six years old, he packed those years with an

Cizinec - Albert Camus

Jeden z nejproslulejších románů 20. století, jímž se Albert Camus stal duchovním otcem celé jedné poválečné generace, byl bezprostředně po svém vydání v r. 1942 označen vichystickou kritikou jako 'ochablost ducha' a 'degenerace lidství'. Ve skutečnosti je příběh Meursaulta,