PHILOSOPHY - Albert Camus
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Notebooks, 1942-1951 (Volume 2)
- ASIN: 1566638739
- ISBN: 1566638739
- Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These thre... [Read More]
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The Stranger
- ASIN: 0679720200
- ISBN: 9780679720201
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947
- ASIN: 069113376X
- ISBN: 069113376X
- Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. ? Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from Ger... [Read More]
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
- ASIN: 0679733841
- ISBN: 0679733841
- Brand: Brand: Random House Inc
- Manufacturer: Vintage
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established order... [Read More]
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)
- ASIN: 1400042550
- ISBN: 1400042550
- Brand: Everyman s Library
- Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—1960) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of... [Read More]
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The Plague
- ASIN: 0679720219
- ISBN: 0679720219
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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The Stranger by Albert Camus (1989) Paperback
- ASIN: B01181UBSU
- Manufacturer: Vintage Books USA
The Stranger by Camus,Albert. [1989] Paperback
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Lyrical and Critical Essays
- ASIN: 0394708520
- ISBN: 0394708520
- Brand: Camus, Albert
- Manufacturer: Vintage
“Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus’s three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter.”—The New York Times Book R... [Read More]
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The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0525564454
- ISBN: 0525564454
- Manufacturer: Vintage
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus—featured here in a stand-alone edition—is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or me... [Read More]
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Notebooks, 1935-1942 (Volume 1)
- ASIN: 1566638720
- ISBN: 1566638720
- Brand: Brand: Ivan R. Dee
- Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These thre... [Read More]
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The Fall
- ASIN: 0679720227
- ISBN: 0679720227
- Brand: Camus, Albert/ O'Brien, Justin (TRN)
- Manufacturer: Vintage Books
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
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Albert Camus: Elements of a Life
- ASIN: 0801448050
- ISBN: 0801448050
- Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes that I have taught, coming out of them with a re... [Read More]
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Exile and the Kingdom
- ASIN: 0307278581
- ISBN: 0307278581
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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 brutally converted to the worship of a tribal f... [Read More]
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The First Man
- ASIN: 0679768165
- ISBN: 0679768165
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid ... [Read More]
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A Happy Death
- ASIN: 0679764003
- ISBN: 0679764003
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later ficti... [Read More]
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La Chute (Folio) (French Edition)
- ASIN: 2070360105
- ISBN: 2070360105
- Brand: Brand: Editions Gallimard
- Manufacturer: Gallimard
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights 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" (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollow... [Read More]
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The Fall
- ASIN: 0141187948
- ISBN: 9780141187945
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Group(CA)
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights 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" (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollow... [Read More]
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
- ASIN: 0679764011
- ISBN: 0679764011
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the c... [Read More]
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Correspondence, 1932-1960
- ASIN: 0803214979
- ISBN: 0803214979
- Brand: Brand: University of Nebraska Press
- Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
As a philosophy teacher, mentor, and friend, Jean Grenier (1898–1971) had an enormous influence on the young Albert Camus (1913–1960), who, in fact, acknowledged that Grenier’s Les Iles had touched the very core of his sensibility and provided him with both a “terrain for reflection, and a format” that he would later use for his own essay... [Read More]
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Albert Camus Notebooks 1935-1951
- ASIN: 1569246661
- ISBN: 1569246661
- Brand: Brand: Marlowe n Company
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Camus' diary and random notes which provided material for his later fiction
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