The Stranger: Introduction by Keith Gore -- Albert Camus

<p><b>With the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller and <b>the force of a parable, </b><i>The Stranger </i>is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century.</b> <p/>Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a murder in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with an almost scientific clarity, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. <p/></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Albert Camus<br><b>Publisher:</b> Everyman's Library<br><b>Published:</b> 02/23/1993<br><b>Pages:</b> 152<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.56lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.36h x 5.18w x 0.56d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679420262<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 6.8<br><b>Point Value:</b> 6<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>5997 / Stranger<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published <i>The Stranger</i>-now one of the most widely read novels of this century-in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.</p>