\"To create today means to create dangerously\" This new collection contains some of Camus\" most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Med...

Albert Camus was born in a \"world of poverty and sunshine\" in Algeria, which would infuse all of his work. This new collection brings together three volumes of Camus\" most intimate autobiographical writings for the first time....

Albert Camus’ laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century....

\"When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out\" Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus\" devastating attack on the \"obscene exhibition\" of capital punishment remains one of the mos...

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth....

The Plague is Albert Camus\"s world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine....

In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others....

This definitive new collection of Albert Camus\" public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century\"s most enduring writers....

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one\"s own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil....

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as \"perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood\" of his novels, Albert Camus\" The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics. Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil....

Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus\"s astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event....

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994....

The Plague is Albert Camus\"s world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine....

A philosophical exploration of the idea of \"rebellion\" by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus\" The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd....