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  • Published: 20 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241554401
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $35.00

The Outsider





Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition

In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, 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. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

  • Published: 20 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241554401
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $35.00

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Praise for The Outsider

Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination

Conor Cruise O'Brien
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