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The Age of Reasonby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0679738959 (0-679-73895-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reason'Book summary:The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense. [via]
Albert Camus's the Strangerby Harold BloomISBN 0791059286 (0-7910-5928-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Being and Nothingnessby Jean Paul Sartre, Hazel E. BarnesISBN 0671867806 (0-671-86780-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being and Nothingness'Book summary:Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives.
Drawing on history and his own rich imagination for examples, Sartre offers compelling supplements to his more formal arguments. The waiter who detaches himself from his job-role sticks in the reader's memory with greater tenacity than the lengthy discussion of inauthentic life and serves to bring the full force of the argument to life. Even if you're not an angst-addicted poet from North Beach, Being and Nothingness offers you a deep conversation with a brilliant mind--unfortunately, a rare find these days. --Rob Lightner [via]
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- Being and Nothingness: ISBN 0806522763 (0-8065-2276-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp - Being and Nothingness: ISBN 0671496069 (0-671-49606-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Being and Nothingness: ISBN 0517101858 (0-517-10185-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Being and Nothingness: ISBN 080221486X (0-8022-1486-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales - Being and Nothingness: ISBN 0844669121 (0-8446-6912-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Being and Nothingness: ISBN 0671867806 (0-671-86780-6)
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- Being and Nothingness: ISBN 0806522763 (0-8065-2276-3)
Der Prozessby Franz KafkaISBN 0435385011 (0-435-38501-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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El Extranjeroby Albert CamusISBN 9500423693 (950-04-2369-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Proceso / the Processby Franz KafkaISBN 8437608562 (84-376-0856-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Proceso / the Process'Book summary:This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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En Attendant Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0023078308 (0-02-307830-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Existentialism and Human Emotionsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0806509023 (0-8065-0902-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism and Human Emotions'Book summary:[via]In this provocative philosophical analysis, Sartre refutes the idea that existentialism drains meaning from human life, by claiming that the philosophy instead gives man total freedom to achieve his own significance
Sartres Existentialism and Human Emotions is a stirring defense of existentialist thought, which argues that existence precedes essence. While attacks on existentialism claim that the philosophy leads to a kind of nihilistic gloom, Sartre contends that instead existentialism is the only path toward giving man meaning. Sartre ultimately argues that by the very absence of a priori meaning, an individual can discover and shape his or her own significance and place in the world.Sartre turns the typical nihilistic definition of existentialism on its head in this optimistic take on his best-known theory.More editions of Existentialism and Human Emotions:
Existentialism and Humanismby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0838321488 (0-8383-2148-8)
Softcover, Haskell House Pub Ltd
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Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartreby Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0452009308 (0-452-00930-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre'Book summary:[via]This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartreby Walter KaufmannISBN 0844661511 (0-8446-6151-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre'Book summary:[via]This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.
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Existentialism Is a Humanismby Jean Paul Sartre, John Kulka, Arlette Elkanm-sartre, Annie Cohen-Solal, Carol MacomberISBN 0300115466 (0-300-11546-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism Is a Humanism'Book summary:[via]This book presents a new English translation of two seminal works by Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominant European intellectual of the post-World War II decades. The volume includes Sartres 1945 lecture Existentialism Is a Humanism and his analysis of Camuss The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartres introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal offers an assessment of both works.
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ( Existentialism Is a Humanism ) was to expound his philosophy as a form of existentialism, a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.
The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartres doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essencehis self, his beingthrough the choices he freely makes ( existence precedes essence ). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.More editions of Existentialism Is a Humanism:
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The Fallby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679720227 (0-679-72022-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall'Book summary:Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency. [via]
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The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiadby Roger BoylanISBN 0802140327 (0-8021-4032-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad'Book summary:Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, through the frenetic week of the Pint-Pulling Olympiad. After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to the IRA, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O'Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn't know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil's sexy cousin Rashmi a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative is hot on the bombers' trail. With a wink and a nudge, Boylan's pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.[via]More editions of The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad:
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophyby William BarrettISBN 0385031386 (0-385-03138-6)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy'Book summary:Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy. [via]
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L Etrangerby Albert CamusISBN 0135307902 (0-13-530790-2)
Softcover, Appleton & Lange
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Etranger'Book summary:LÉtranger est un roman dAlbert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de labsurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : labsurde. Cette trilogie comprend également lessai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe ainsi que les deux pièces de théâtre Caligula et Le Malentendu. Le roman a été traduit en quarante langues et une adaptation cinématographique a été réalisée par Luchino Visconti en 1967.
En 1999. La revue Le Monde classa ce roman premier parmi les 100 romans du siècle.
Meursault, le narrateur, employé de bureau algérois, apprend la mort de sa mère. Il prend l'autobus pour se rendre à l'asile où elle a fini ses jours et assiste avec indifférence à la veillée et à l'enterrement. Le lendemain, samedi, il rencontre Marie dans un établissement de bains, l'emmène au cinéma et passe la nuit avec elle. Le dimanche s'étire dans l'ennui et le désoeuvrement. Meursault retrouve son bureau et ses voisins: Céleste le restaurateur, le vieux Salamano qui bat son chien, et Raymond Sintès, dont on dit dans le quartier qu'il «vit des femmes». Celui-ci demande à Meursault de rédiger une lettre destinée à une femme qui l'a trompé. Le samedi suivant, Meursault se rend à la plage avec Marie. Au retour, ils assistent à une scène violente au cours de laquelle Raymond frappe sa maîtresse. La police étant intervenue, Meursault accepte de témoigner en faveur de Raymond ... Meursault et Marie vont passer le dimanche à la plage, avec Raymond. Deux Arabes les ont suivis. L'un est le frère de la femme que Raymond a maltraitée. Une dispute éclate: Raymond est blessé d'un coup de couteau. Un peu plus tard, par une chaleur accablante, il revient provoquer son agresseur. Meursault, qui lui, a pris son revolver par précaution, se retrouve seul face à l'Arabe. Aveuglé par le soleil et l'éclat du couteau que celui-ci a sorti de sa poche, il tire sur lui...
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- L Etranger: ISBN 0423846108 (0-423-84610-8)
Hardcover, Methuen Educational - L Etranger: ISBN 207030602X (2-07-030602-X)
Softcover, Gallimard - L Etranger: ISBN 2070360024 (2-07-036002-4)
Softcover, Gallimard - L Etranger: ISBN 2040284877 (2-04-028487-7)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc - L Etranger: ISBN 2070393712 (2-07-039371-2)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc - L' Etranger: ISBN 0135307902 (0-13-530790-2)
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- L Etranger: ISBN 0423846108 (0-423-84610-8)
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L'Homme Revolteby Albert CamusISBN 0685112349 (0-685-11234-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Homme Revolte'Book summary:Essai majeur de l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté est un livre prophétique sur la situation politique et sociale de la France des années cinquante. Marquant l'engagement philosophique de Camus, cet ouvrage est une relecture personnelle des grandes étapes de l'esprit de révolte, de la Révolution française à la Révolution russe. Les grands penseurs, de Sade à Nietzsche en passant par Marx ou Saint-Just sont évoqués et analysés, de même que les grands courants de pensée à la marge ou aux extrêmes, des nihilistes aux surréalistes en passant par les anarchistes ou les royalistes.
Grand essai érudit et cultivé, dans l'esprit de l'honnête homme, cet ouvrage aborde la révolte sous ses aspects métaphysique, historique, et artistique. Plus que de toutes autres de ses oeuvres, on retrouve ici exprimée l'évolution de l'esprit contestataire de Camus, qui fait de cet essai un classique absolu. L'Homme révolté est une sorte de Lipstick Traces avant l'heure, en moins rock'n'roll certes mais tout aussi remarquable. --Florent Mazzoleni [via]
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LA Chuteby Albert Camus, Germaine BreeISBN 0883324652 (0-88332-465-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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LA Pesteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Peste'Book summary:La Peste est un roman dAlbert Camus publié en 1947 qui permit en partie à son auteur de remporter le prix Nobel en 1957. Il a pour théâtre Oran durant la période de lAlgérie française. Lhistoire se déroule dans les années 1940. Le roman raconte sous forme de chronique la vie quotidienne des habitants de la ville pendant une épidémie de peste qui frappe la ville et la coupe du monde extérieur. [via]
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essaysby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679733736 (0-679-73373-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays'Book summary:PhilosophyReligion/Philosophy [via]
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Nauseaby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0811217000 (0-8112-1700-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nausea'Book summary:Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the Twentieth Century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our timethe time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize trhe tents of his Existentialist creed.
he introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself. [via]-
No Exit and Three Other Playsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0679725164 (0-679-72516-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Exit and Three Other Plays'Book summary:4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism. [via]
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Notes from the Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hugh AplinISBN 1843911264 (1-84391-126-4)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from the Underground'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well - let it get worse! I have been going on like that for a long time - twenty years. Now I am forty. I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. I was a spiteful official. I was rude and took pleasure in being so. I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least. (A poor jest, but I will not scratch it out. I wrote it thinking it would sound very witty; but now that I have seen myself that I only wanted to show off in a despicable way, I will not scratch it out on purpose!) [via]
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 1420926896 (1-4209-2689-6)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:Dostoevsky's NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND is a psychological study of the deepest darkest skeletons in the closet of the human mind. The first novel from Dostoevsky's mature "second period" works, divided in two parts, presents an unnamed protagonist, a twisted angry student, and his worldview. It is one proud man's cry for help and perverse rejection of the world around him. [via]
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Notes from Undergroundby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 1857152719 (1-85715-271-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation is the only translation that counts. They are the only translators who succeed in making Dostoevsky accessible to a 21st century audience, thanks to their ruthless attention to detail at the expense of alterations which can dilute Dostoevsky's unique and flowing style of writing. The great appeal this book retains even today is in part due to Pevear and Volokhonsky, as well as to Dostoevsky himself. Furthermore, Richard Pevear's substantial introduction is essential reading. It explains the purpose of the book and the historical significance of its ideas. Dostoevsky was writing at a time when Russia had reason to be optimistic, but the warning signs in his fiction perhaps leave us clues as to why Russia still has social problems today - and why, less than 40 years after Dostoevsky's death, Russia embraced Communism and destroyed the society in which Dostoevsky had lived [via]
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The Outsiderby Albert CamusISBN 1857151399 (1-85715-139-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsider'Book summary:Set in Camus'' native Algeria, this story cen tres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an ap parently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental value s of society ' [via]
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The Plagueby Albert Camus, Stuart GilbertISBN 0075536498 (0-07-553649-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Plague: ISBN 0808519840 (0-8085-1984-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Plague: ISBN 0394712587 (0-394-71258-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Plague: ISBN 0394440617 (0-394-44061-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Plague: ISBN 0394601092 (0-394-60109-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Plague: ISBN 0708981925 (0-7089-8192-5)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - The Plague: ISBN 0075536498 (0-07-553649-8)
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- The Plague: ISBN 0679720219 (0-679-72021-9)
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revoltby Albert CamusISBN 0679733841 (0-679-73384-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt'Book summary:By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.
Translated from the French by Anthony Bower. [via]More editions of The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt:
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. [via]
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- The Stranger: ISBN 0679720200 (0-679-72020-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books - The Stranger: ISBN 0394533054 (0-394-53305-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Stranger: ISBN 0679420266 (0-679-42026-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - The Stranger: ISBN 0881032476 (0-88103-247-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Stranger: ISBN 0394700023 (0-394-70002-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Stranger: ISBN 0819121428 (0-8191-2142-8)
Softcover, University Press of America - The Stranger: ISBN 0075432277 (0-07-543227-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - The Stranger: ISBN 0606014268 (0-606-01426-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Stranger: ISBN 081912141X (0-8191-2141-X)
Hardcover, University Press of America - The Stranger: ISBN 089966623X (0-89966-623-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Stranger: ISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
- The Stranger: ISBN 0679720200 (0-679-72020-0)
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The Strangerby Chris Van AllsburgISBN 0395423317 (0-395-42331-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?[via]More editions of The Stranger:
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Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godotby Samuel Beckett, James Knowlson, Douglad McMillanISBN 0802115489 (0-8021-1548-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot'Book summary:A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times. [via]
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Douglas Scott, Christopher Waller, J. P. SternISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, [Kafka] will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well-fed.") Among the current crop of Kafka heirs is Breon Mitchell, the translator of this edition of The Trial. Rather than tidying up Kafka's unconventional grammar and punctuation (as previous translators have done), Mitchell captures the loose, uneasy, even uncomfortable constructions of Kafka's original story. His translation technique is the only way to convey the comedy and confusion of this narrative, in which Josef K., "without having done anything truly wrong," is arrested, tried, convicted and executed--on a charge that is never disclosed to him. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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- The Trial: ISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0805210407 (0-8052-1040-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0613175638 (0-613-17563-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Trial: ISBN 0679409947 (0-679-40994-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0805204164 (0-8052-0416-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0805208488 (0-8052-0848-8)
Softcover, Schocken Books - The Trial: ISBN 039444955X (0-394-44955-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0606039392 (0-606-03939-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text: ISBN 0805241655 (0-8052-4165-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Trial: ISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Steven BerkoffISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press
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Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802118216 (0-8021-1821-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot'Book summary:Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see "Waiting for Godot". At the worst you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live' - Harold Hobson, 7 August 1955. 'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly' - Samuel Beckett, 1955. [via]
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Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Actsby Samuel BecketISBN 0802130348 (0-8021-3034-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts'Book summary:A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone-or something-named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. [via]
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Waiting for Godot/Coles Notesby BeckettISBN 0774033630 (0-7740-3363-0)
Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd
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Esperando a Godot / Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 8472238652 (84-7223-865-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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El Existencialismo Es UN Humanismoby Jean Paul SartreISBN 9500392054 (950-03-9205-4)
Hardcover, Oceano De Mexico
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El Extranjeroby Albert CamusISBN 8420636940 (84-206-3694-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Extranjero'Book summary:Guía moral e intelectual de la generación llegada a la madurez entre las ruinas, la frustración y la desesperanza de la Europa de postguerra, Albert Camus (1913-1960) saltó a la fama con la publicación, en 1942, de EL EXTRANJERO. La novela -lúcida descripción de la carencia de valores del mundo contemporáneo- tiene como referencia omnipresente a Meursault, su protagonista, a quien una serie de circunstancias conduce a cometer un crimen aparentemente inmotivado; su muerte en el patíbulo no tendrá más sentido que su vida, corroída por la cotidianidad y gobernada por fuerzas anónimas que, al despojar a los hombres de la condición de sujetos autónomos, les eximen también de responsabilidad y de culpa. [via]
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El hombre rebeldeby Albert CamusISBN 8420672386 (84-206-7238-6)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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La Nausea/nauseaby Jean Paul SartreISBN 9500392623 (950-03-9262-3)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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El Proceso / the Trialby Franz KafkaISBN 8495311313 (84-95311-31-3)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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La Chuteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360105 (2-07-036010-5)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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En Attendant Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 2707301485 (2-7073-0148-5)
Softcover, Editions de Minuit
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L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvreby Pierre Louis ReyISBN 2218740729 (2-218-74072-9)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvre'Book summary:L ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman de Camus.
Le résumé détaillé est suivi de l étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :
Sources et parentés de Camus
Meursault, un personnage de nouveau roman
Les autres personnages
Les principaux thèmes
Le sens du roman
L écriture de Camus.
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Homme Revolte: Essaiby Albert CamusISBN 2070323021 (2-07-032302-1)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homme Revolte: Essai'Book summary:Essai majeur de l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté est un livre prophétique sur la situation politique et sociale de la France des années cinquante. Marquant l'engagement philosophique de Camus, cet ouvrage est une relecture personnelle des grandes étapes de l'esprit de révolte, de la Révolution française à la Révolution russe. Les grands penseurs, de Sade à Nietzsche en passant par Marx ou Saint-Just sont évoqués et analysés, de même que les grands courants de pensée à la marge ou aux extrêmes, des nihilistes aux surréalistes en passant par les anarchistes ou les royalistes.
Grand essai érudit et cultivé, dans l'esprit de l'honnête homme, cet ouvrage aborde la révolte sous ses aspects métaphysique, historique, et artistique. Plus que de toutes autres de ses oeuvres, on retrouve ici exprimée l'évolution de l'esprit contestataire de Camus, qui fait de cet essai un classique absolu. L'Homme révolté est une sorte de Lipstick Traces avant l'heure, en moins rock'n'roll certes mais tout aussi remarquable. --Florent Mazzoleni [via]
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L Etrangerby Albert Camus, Ray DavisonISBN 0415025869 (0-415-02586-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L Etranger'Book summary:Condamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu'il faisait chaud. On n'en tirera rien d'autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l'annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort de sa mère, ni les paroles du prêtre avant la fin. Comme si, sur cette plage, il avait soudain eu la révélation de l'universelle équivalence du tout et du rien. La conscience de n'être sur la terre qu'en sursis, d'une mort qui, quoi qu'il arrive, arrivera, sans espoir de salut. Et comment être autre chose qu'indifférent à tout après ça ?
Étranger sur la terre, étranger à lui-même, Meursault le bien nommé pose les questions qui deviendront un leitmotiv dans l'oeuvre de Camus. De La Peste à La Chute, mais aussi dans ses pièces et dans ses essais, celui qui allait devenir Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957 ne cessera de s'interroger sur le sens de l'existence. Sa mort violente en 1960 contribua quelque peu à rendre mythique ce maître à penser de toute une génération. --Karla Manuele [via]
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La Nauseeby Jean-Paul SartreISBN 207036805X (2-07-036805-X)
Softcover, Gallimard, Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Nausee'Book summary:256pages. poche. broché. Donc j'étais tout à l'heure au Jardin public. La racine du marronnier s'enfonçait dans la terre, juste au-dessous de mon banc. Je ne me rappelais plus que c'était une racine. Les mots s'étaient évanouis et, avec eux, la signification des choses, leurs modes d'emploi, les faibles repères que les hommes ont tracés à leur surface. J'étais assis, un peu voûté, la tête basse, seul en face de cette masse noire et noueuse entièrement brute et qui me faisait peur. Et puis j'ai eu cette illumination. Ca m'a coupé le souffle. Jamais, avant ces derniers jours, je n'avais pressenti ce que voulait dire exister. [via]
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