The Outsider (The Stranger)
- London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); grayish-green cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[2],3-104,[2]pp. Text edges foxed, with some very faint foxing to endpapers, and just a hint of sunning to spine; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 6s. net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and some scattered foxing; Very Good+.
Camus's first novel, and the first to be published in English, preceding the American edition published by Knopf, and with an introduction by Cyril Connolly not present in the American edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's first-person narrative of solitude and disaffection has become a classic of existential literature, and the basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. CONNOLLY 100. 87827.
Camus's first novel, and the first to be published in English, preceding the American edition published by Knopf, and with an introduction by Cyril Connolly not present in the American edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's first-person narrative of solitude and disaffection has become a classic of existential literature, and the basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. CONNOLLY 100. 87827.