Book Lists

Best Selling Books by Albert Camus

Albert Camus is the author of Youthful Writings (1976), The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (2004), Summer in Algiers (2005), Le Mythe de Sisyphe (2018), Kaligula (2007).

41 - 80 of 1,000,000 results
<< >>

Youthful Writings

Youthful Writings
Youthful writings of Albert Camus including essays, verse, parables, and fairy tales.

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

release date: Aug 17, 2004
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century and a Nobel Prize-winning author: two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single hardcover volume that deploy his lyric eloquence in defense against despair. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913–1960) provides an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning. The Plague—written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant—is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic. The Fall (1956), which takes the form of an astonishing confession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is a haunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The six stories of Exile and the Kingdom (1957) represent Camus at the height of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting his characters—from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife—at decisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictional counterparts, Camus’s famous essays “The Myth of Sisyphus” and “Reflections on the Guillotine” are all the more powerful and philosophically daring, confirming his towering place in twentieth-century thought. With an introduction by David Bellos. Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author''s life and times.

Summer in Algiers

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Summer in Algiers
In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company''s 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane''s vision of good books for all''. three essays evoke different aspects of the place - the title essay The Minotaur and The Return to Tipasa.

Le Mythe de Sisyphe

release date: Jan 17, 2018
Le Mythe de Sisyphe
l se trouve dans Le Mythe de Sisyphe o� l''auteur fran�ais Albert Camus pr�sente sa philosophie de l''absurde: l''id�e que l''humanit� dans son ensemble est bloqu� dans une boucle perp�tuelle en vains efforts pour essayer de trouver un sens dans un monde absurde. Il illustre son point avec un personnage c�l�bre de la mythologie grecque: Sisyphe a �t� condamn� par les dieux � rouler un rocher jusqu''au sommet d''une montagne, seulement pour retomber � l''endroit o� le premier commenc� et r�p�ter le processus un nombre infini de fois. -De Goodread

Kaligula

release date: Sep 01, 2007
Kaligula
‘कालिगुला’ रोमन साम्राज्य के निरंकुश तानाशाह की मर्मांतक कहानी है जो अपने मारे जाने के षड्यंत्रों के बीच भी ''निर्भय'' है। उसकी तानाशाही ने सदाचार को, ईमानदार आदमी को चाबुक पर नचाया है। उसे उन लोगों के चेहरों की मलिनता और गंध बड़ी निकृष्ट लगती है, जिन्होंने न दुःख भोगे न जोखिम उठाए, जो सद्गुणों की जैसे दुकान लगाते हैं, सुरक्षा का स्वप्न ऐसे देखते हैं जैसे कोई युवती प्रेम का। शायद ये इसी भय में अन्ततः मर भी जाएँगे बिना यह जाने कि उन्होंने जिन्दगी भर झूठ बोला है। ये लोग न्यायकर्ता कैसे हो सकते हैं? ऐसी तमाम बातें, तमाम चीजें बेबाकी से सोचनेवाले निरंकुश, क्रूर और अनिष्टकारी कालिगुला को सारी वर्जनाओं के बावजूद किसी महानायक की तरह स्थापित करती चली जाती हैं। कालिगुला की मुक्ति की छटपटाहट और मनुष्य के मनोभावों पर निरपेक्ष पकड़ से ही उसके लिए चाँद जरूरी हो जाता है। वह खुद से कहता है, ‘कालिगुला, तुम भी, तुम भी दंड के भागी हो। किसी से कुछ कम, किसी से कुछ ज्यादा लेकिन इस न्यायाधीशविहीन संसार में जहाँ कोई भी निर्दोष नहीं, कौन हिम्मत करेगा कि मुझे दोषी ठहराए?’

Camus at Combat

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Camus at Combat
For the first time in English, "Camus at Combat" presents all of Camus'' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in "Combat," the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947.

Sartre and Camus

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Sartre and Camus
In a series of highly publicized articles in 1952, Jean-Paul Sartre engaged Albert Camus in a bitter public confrontation over the ideas Camus articulated in his renowned work, . This volume contains English translations of the five texts constituting this famous philosophical quarrel. It also features a biographical and critical introduction plus two essays by contemporary scholars reflecting on the cultural and philosophical significance of this confrontation.

The Stranger

release date: Jun 07, 2016
The Stranger
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep.Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later—leading him to commit an irreparable act.This new illustrated edition of Camus''s classic novel The Stranger portrays an enigmatic man who commits a senseless crime and then calmly, and apparently indifferently, sits through his trial and hears himself condemned to death.

Ajanabi

release date: Aug 01, 2024
Ajanabi
फ्रांस के अमर लेखक, नोबेल पुरस्कार-विजेता अल्बैर कामू मानव-अन्तर्मन के संवेगों और कुंठाओं को अनावृत करने में पटु हैं। नियति में उनका विश्वास है और कृत्य की स्वतंत्रता एक निर्दिष्ट परिधि में ही वह मानते हैं। आरम्भ से अन्त तक पाठक की रुचि को साधे रखनेवाले इस उपन्यास में नायक के समस्त क्रिया-कलाप और उसके साथ घटी घटनाओं में उनका यही जीवन-दर्शन व्यक्त हुआ है। विश्व के विशिष्ट उपन्यास-साहित्य में स्थान पानेवाले उपन्यास ‘अजनबी’ की कथा-वस्तु न केवल हमारे मर्म को मथ देने में सफल होती है, वरन् हमें जीवन और कर्म, और इन दोनों के उद्देश्यों के सम्बन्ध में भी सोचने पर विवश करती है। सन् 1942 में प्रकाशित इस उपन्यास को द्वितीय विश्वयुद्ध से उत्पन्न हताशा और विसंगतियों को अभिव्यक्त करनेवाली कृति माना जाता है। उपन्यास के नायक से कामू यहाँ जीवन की निरुद्देश्यता और मृत्यु की अनिवार्यता को रेखांकित करते हैं; नायक की समाज से विरक्ति और उदासीनता का जैसा मार्मिक चित्रण कामू ने इस उपन्यास में किया है, वह आज भी स्तब्ध कर देता है।

Myth of Sisyphus

release date: Oct 15, 2012

The First Man

release date: Oct 02, 2018
The First Man
A visually arresting adaptation of Albert Camus’s masterful biographical novel that offers a new graphic interpretation for the next generation of readers. This new illustrated of Camus’s final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus’s own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father''s death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria—and the young protagonist''s attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. In telling the story of his metaphorical search for his father, who died in World War I, Camus returns to the "land of oblivion where each one is the first man" and must find his own answers. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed the Nobel Prize–winning novelist, this graphic interpretation of The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the twenty century''s greatest authors.
41 - 80 of 1,000,000 results
<< >>


  • Aboutread.com makes it one-click away to discover great books from local library by linking books/movies to your library catalog search.

  • Copyright © 2026 Aboutread.com