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This text is featured in the Easton Press series: Collector's Edition. Published
in 1979, bound in handsome Navy Blue leather, and strikingly illustrated by Daniel Maffia, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectibles library.
Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:
- Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
- 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
- Heavy duty binding boards... .
- Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
- Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
- ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
- Gilded page ends.
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"With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. . . . Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. . . .
Camus’s stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.”
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Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
Camus was born in Algeria during the French colonization, to pied-noir parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), he kept a neutral stance, advocating a multicultural and pluralistic Algeria, a position that was rejected by most parties.
Philosophically, Camus' views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. Some consider Camus' work to show him to be an existentialist, even though he himself firmly rejected the term throughout his lifetime.
The above text was taken from, respectively, Knopf Doubleday publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.
[Camus, Albert. The Stranger. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989.]