![]() ![]() ![]() The volume in hand further enhaces the value by association, since it bears a bookplate to the front free endpaper 'The Gibralter International Literary Festival and The Folio Society are pleased to present this book as a thank you for speaking at the 2013 Festival.' A great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike, with added interest to an already rarer Edition of this absurdist and existential classic. Bound in portrait pictorial boards, housed and protected in such great condition by very good original dustwrapper. The Stranger by Albert Camus is regarded as one of the finest examples of absurdist fiction ever written. It has baffled and troubled readers of all ages for decades as they try to contend with Meursault's approach to life, emotions, and consequences. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. This volume appears unopened and unread, vey good clean tight sound square, no inscription, well held in joints and hinges. Published in 1942, The Stranger is Camus' most enduring literary achievement. In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Frontispiece and 6 further full page coloured plate illustrations and pictorial book cover, by the wonderful Matthew Richardson, who tendered for and won the right to illustrate this Special Edition though the House of Illustration and Folio Society's inaugural Book Illustration Competition. ![]() Excellent As New, Increasingly Uncommon, Award Winning Edition, Folio Society 2011. ![]()
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