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Exile & The Kingdom by Albert Camus
29.00 NZD
Category: General 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: Activity Books | 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
Summer in Algiers by Albert Camus
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Camus and his writing are intimately bound up with his native Algeria. These three essays evoke different aspects of the place - the title essay The Minotaur and The Return to Tipasa.
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over severa ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
25.00 NZD
26.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
The Fastidious Assassins (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Albert Camus
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas, AC
A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, s ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
20.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus. 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
21.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing'. It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they ...Show more