The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays

Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own tale of decline and self-discovery, Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which reflect on the themes developed in the fiction.

ISBN 1857152786   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781857152784 (What's this?)   Pages 704 Publisher Everyman   Weight (grammes) 732 Imprint Everyman's Library   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Publication date 05 Aug 2004   Height (mm) 208 Translator Stuart Gilbert, Justin O'Brien   Width (mm) 134 Writer of introduction David Bellos   Spine width (mm) 37 DEWEY 848.91209   Academic level General

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