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The stranger / translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert.
LIBRA - Special PQ2605.A3734 E813 1946b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
- Series:
- Vintage book ; V-2.
- Vintage book ; V-2
- Standardized Title:
- Étranger. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Algeria--Fiction.
- Algeria.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Newburger, Jane (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Lawrenson, [Jane] (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, [©1946]
- Summary:
- "Meursault, an ordinary little clerk living in Algiers, leads a quiet and unemotional life. He commits a senseless murder and is convicted, his lack of emotion toward his mother's death weighing against him. As he contemplates his execution, he considers the value of life and is on the verge of exhibiting feeling."
- Notes:
- Originally published as L'étranger ... 1942.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "Jane Newburger" on half-title and ms. note "[Jane] Lawrenson 7/71" on title page.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has marks and annotations in pencil throughout.
- OCLC:
- 328475
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