The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Albert Camus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857152786 ISBN 13: 9781857152784

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-- now one of the most widely read novels of this century-- in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1857152786
• ISBN 13: 9781857152784
• Binding: Hardcover