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Can I read The stranger on EtoBox?
The stranger by Albert Camus [Camus, Albert] is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The stranger about?
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." Now, in an illuminating new American translation (the only English version available for more than forty years was done by a British translator), the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate, as Matthew Ward captures in exact and lucid language precisely what Camus said and how he said it, thus giving this haunting novel a new life for generations to come. Albert Camus, son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at Various jobs -- in the weather bureau, in an automobile-accessory firm, in a shipping company -- to help pay for his courses at the University of Algiers. He then turned to journalism as a career. His report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the Algerian government
Who reads The stranger?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679720201
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (372 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13