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Albert Camus

Works by Albert Camus

by Albert Camus
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Original title: La Peste

There’s a kind of cold streak in Camus, an austere distance from the world that many trace to his family background, specifically his grandmother who he portrayed in a piece called Courage translated in his Youthful Writings. (more...)

Exile and the Kingdom [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus
Translated by Justin O’Brien
Original title: L’EXIL ET LA ROYAUME

The pellucid, icy night air of the Algerian desert cuts through the first story in this collection like a laser and sets the geographical agenda for many of the others. (more...)

The Fall [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus
Translated by Justin O’Brien
Original title: LA CHUTE

The Fall isn’t the subtlest of Camus’ books, but it’s perhaps all the more powerful for that. Delivered as a monologue addressed by a former top-notch Parisian lawyer to a stranger in an Amsterdam bar, it mounts a full-scale assault on upright humanitarians, (more...)

The Outsider [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Original title: L’Étranger

A Happy Death [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus
Translated by Richard Howard
Original title: La Mort heureuse

Camus’ first (subsequently abandoned) novel on the wonderful subject of what makes a good life is mostly set in his beloved hometown of Algiers and shot through with the sunny North African light he worshipped. Like D.H.Lawrence or George Orwell, Camus was a sick, (more...)

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus
Translated by Justin O'Brien

Exile and the Kingdom [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus

The Stranger [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus and Keith Gore
Translated by Matthew Ward

Le Premier Homme [Buy Direct]

Not yet translated
by Albert Camus

The Outsider

by Albert Camus
Translated by J Laredo
Original title: L’Étranger