Gale study guides to great literature
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.
