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3 Great Novels of Albert Camus at a great combo price for limited period. Albert Camus is considered as one of the most influential authors of the Twentieth century, both for the quality of his fiction and for the depth and insightfulness of his philosophy. The OUTSIDER (The Stranger): Albert Camus’s first novel. First published in 1942, the novel is a representation of Camus’s absurdist world view. The novel is about an emotionally detached, amoral young man named Meursault. Meursault does not cry at his mother’s funeral, does not believe in with the society that persecutes him. God. He kills an unknown man without any apparent motive. Meursault is considered as a threat to society and is sentenced to death. Ultimately, he comes to accept the ‘gentle indifference of the world. Complete & unabridged. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. THE PLAGUE: What would it be like to find your city, your village, your country, shut off from the rest of the world, the citizens confined to their homes and the contagion spreads, infecting thousands, and subjecting thousands more to quarantine? How would you cope if an epidemic disrupted daily life, closing schools, offices, restaurants and everything? Social gatherings, sporting events and concerts, conferences, festivals and travel plans on indefinite hold? Albert Camus provided a brilliant, astonishingly detailed and penetrating answer to these questions in this novel. Complete & unabridged. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. THE FALL: The story of Jean-Baptiste Clamance. He was a former Parisian lawyer staying in Amsterdam and he was very similar to the characters of Meursault in prior Camus novels. Clamance tells of his courting of a young girl who rejected him, whom he discarded like rubbish after one night of passionate love-making because he just was not interested anymore. Complete & unabridged. Translated by Justin O’Brien.