CAMUS, Albert.

The Stranger.

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world": Albert Camus' masterpiece The Stranger; finely bound in full morocco by The Harcourt Bindery

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

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Finely bound new American edition of Camus’ first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Translated from the French by Matthew Ward. In fine condition.

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." With the publication of this first novel L’Etranger (The Stranger), Camus introduced his lifelong attempt to reconcile a philosophy of heroic nihilism with “the ideal of human fraternity” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It remains one of the classic works of the twentieth century.