The stranger
(Book)

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Published
, [1989].
Edition
[Matthew Ward 1988 translation].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
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Published
, [1989].
Format
Book
Edition
[Matthew Ward 1988 translation].
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.8, 6 Points

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Treated as a "blanket" record for the classic title. Other versions with criticism, illustrations, adaptations, etc. cataloged separately.
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Originally published as L'étranger in 1942. Originally translated into English by Matthew Ward in 1988.
Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.

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