![]() ![]() The volume in hand further enhaces the value by association, since it bears a bookplate to the front free endpaper 'The Gibralter International Literary Festival and The Folio Society are pleased to present this book as a thank you for speaking at the 2013 Festival.' A great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike, with added interest to an already rarer Edition of this absurdist and existential classic. Bound in portrait pictorial boards, housed and protected in such great condition by very good original dustwrapper. This volume appears unopened and unread, vey good clean tight sound square, no inscription, well held in joints and hinges. Meursault meets with the director of the home. The novel opens when he receives a telegram saying his mother has died. ![]() The apparently amoral Meursault-who puts. Meursault is a shipping clerk living in a decrepit Algiers apartment he shared with his mother before he sent her to an old people's home he rarely visits. ![]() Frontispiece and 6 further full page coloured plate illustrations and pictorial book cover, by the wonderful Matthew Richardson, who tendered for and won the right to illustrate this Special Edition though the House of Illustration and Folio Society's inaugural Book Illustration Competition. In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. ![]() Excellent As New, Increasingly Uncommon, Award Winning Edition, Folio Society 2011. ![]()
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