Camus, Albert

A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. The Stranger (L'Etranger), was published in France in 1942 and translated and published in English in 1946. Written by Albert Camus, a popular French author who was born in Algeria, was also a highly successful playwright and the writer of many philosopical, political and critical essays. The Stranger is the story of the fate of an average man who refuses to conceal his feelings behind the conventional pretensions of his fellowmen.

Literary Masters is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics). Each Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author and covers basic biographical information. Albert Camus, who was proud of being born in Algeria, maintained close ties with France, and became one of the most famous mid-twentieth-century French authors.

The final book by Camus, covering the years of his fatherless childhood in Algeria, taken from his incomplete, handwritten manuscript.

Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits murder.

Autobiographical novel translated from the author's final, unfinished manuscript, tells the story of Jacques Cormery, an Algerian boy whose poverty-stricken, fatherless life is offset by the beauty of his country and his loving relationship with his deaf-mute mother.

A collection of writings by twentieth-century French author and philosopher Albert Camus, including two novels, six short stories, and two essays.

Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.

A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant.

Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.