The Collected Fiction Of Albert Camus: Comprising The Outsider, The Plague, The Fall, Exile And The Kingdom
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few writers have captured the existential dread and moral ambiguity of the twentieth century with the searing precision of Albert Camus, and this landmark omnibus brings together his four defining works of fiction — The Outsider, The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom — into a single, indispensable volume. From Meursault's chilling emotional detachment on the sun-bleached shores of Algiers, to the besieged citizens of Oran confronting a devastating epidemic, to the tortured self-confessions of a Parisian lawyer, and finally to a quintet of short stories probing the lives of ordinary people caught between worlds, Camus constructs a universe where the absurd is not merely a philosophical position but a lived, visceral reality. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Camus occupies an irreplaceable position in the canon of Western letters, and this collection illustrates the full range of his novelistic genius — at once spare and luminous, morally rigorous and profoundly compassionate. His prose, rendered with cool, almost journalistic economy, conceals beneath its surface a passionate argument for human solidarity and dignity in the face of an indifferent cosmos. Taken together, these four works chronicle nothing less than the human condition in its most stripped-back, unflinching form — and demand the question: in a world without inherent meaning, how does one choose to live?
Author: Albert Camus
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few writers have captured the existential dread and moral ambiguity of the twentieth century with the searing precision of Albert Camus, and this landmark omnibus brings together his four defining works of fiction — The Outsider, The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom — into a single, indispensable volume. From Meursault's chilling emotional detachment on the sun-bleached shores of Algiers, to the besieged citizens of Oran confronting a devastating epidemic, to the tortured self-confessions of a Parisian lawyer, and finally to a quintet of short stories probing the lives of ordinary people caught between worlds, Camus constructs a universe where the absurd is not merely a philosophical position but a lived, visceral reality. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Camus occupies an irreplaceable position in the canon of Western letters, and this collection illustrates the full range of his novelistic genius — at once spare and luminous, morally rigorous and profoundly compassionate. His prose, rendered with cool, almost journalistic economy, conceals beneath its surface a passionate argument for human solidarity and dignity in the face of an indifferent cosmos. Taken together, these four works chronicle nothing less than the human condition in its most stripped-back, unflinching form — and demand the question: in a world without inherent meaning, how does one choose to live?