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Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus; Arthur Goldhammer; Alice Kaplan
$39.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus "Algerian Chronicles" appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus most political works an exploration o ...Show more
Camus at "Combat" by Albert Camus
$49.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August ...Show more
Camus at "Combat" by Albert Camus
$88.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Presents Albert Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in "Combat". These 165 articles and editorials show how Camus' thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left alongside his longstanding strident oppo ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Languages & Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
$2.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Pengu ...Show more
Exile & The Kingdom by Albert Camus
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
LEGO Star Wars: 500 Stickers by Camus Albert & Smith Sandra (trans)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Lego Star Wars
Welcome to the amazing world of LEGO Star Wars(TM)! This awesome activity book is full of pictures to colour, missions to complete and over 500 re-usable stickers! Enjoy solving the puzzles and using the stickers as you travel through the galaxy. Then when youve finished, peel off the stickers and use t ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Languages & Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
$13.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' ...Show more
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...' This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pr ...Show more
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.' Camus' writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity. These three powerful and evocative stories are ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall is ...Show more