Books by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (1955)
Essays deal with nihilism and the problem of suicide...

The Stranger (1989)
An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria...

The Plague (1948)
A novel with the dreaded plagues as the powerful force affecting people....

Camus at Combat (2007)
For the first time in English, "Camus at Combat" presents all of Camus' World War II resistance and ...

The Rebel (1991)
The author traces the ways in which the theories of philosophers such as Rousseau, Hegel and Marx ha...

The Fall (1956)
A man's confessions reveal his perception of justice and his own downfall...

The First Man (1996)
Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rises above the losses and misfortunes of his c...

Exile and the Kingdom (2007)
A compelling new translation of a collection of short fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author expl...

A Happy Death (1995)
The French author reveals his feelings of alienation in this novel about a young man's search for th...

Summer in Algiers (2005)
In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titl...

The Outsider (1998)
Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famou...