The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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“Five novels I think about all the time 1984: States crave control The Trial: Bureaucracies eats people The Stranger: Alienation is a vantage point Animal Farm: Revolutions usually corrupt Brave New World: Caste systems fence morality | The book I’ve given most as a gift. | The book really does inspire you to be able to stick by your guns when you're surrounded by a lot of gloomdoomers and naysayers.”
Source →“Five novels I think about all the time 1984: States crave control The Trial: Bureaucracies eats people The Stranger: Alienation is a vantage point Animal Farm: Revolutions usually corrupt Brave New World: Caste systems fence morality | The book I’ve given most as a gift. | The book really does inspire you to be able to stick by your guns when you're surrounded by a lot of gloomdoomers and naysayers.”
Source →“Five novels I think about all the time 1984: States crave control The Trial: Bureaucracies eats people The Stranger: Alienation is a vantage point Animal Farm: Revolutions usually corrupt Brave New World: Caste systems fence morality | The book I’ve given most as a gift. | The book really does inspire you to be able to stick by your guns when you're surrounded by a lot of gloomdoomers and naysayers.”
Source →“Five novels I think about all the time 1984: States crave control The Trial: Bureaucracies eats people The Stranger: Alienation is a vantage point Animal Farm: Revolutions usually corrupt Brave New World: Caste systems fence morality | The book I’ve given most as a gift. | The book really does inspire you to be able to stick by your guns when you're surrounded by a lot of gloomdoomers and naysayers.”
Source →Recommended by 6 notable people, including David Heinemeier Hansson and Lex Fridman
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Existentialism, Classic, and Most Recommended Books.
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's 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 sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with t...
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Existentialism, Classic, and Most Recommended Books.
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“Five novels I think about all the time 1984: States crave control The Trial: Bureaucracies eats people The Stranger: Alienation is a vantage point Animal Farm: Revolutions usually corrupt Brave New World: Caste systems fence morality | The book I’ve given most as a gift. | The book really does inspire you to be able to stick by your guns when you're surrounded by a lot of gloomdoomers and naysayers.”
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“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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