camus albert gilbert stuart translator (12 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. The Modern Library New York 12mo. 278 pages. green cloth boards. binding tight. underlining and notes in margins by previous owner.

Zustand: Good. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1958 tenth printing, december 1958. black cloth boards slightly rubbed and stained. previous owner inscription to ffep. binding tight, pages bright.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 308 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original red lettered blue cloth (casing cocked and spine and edges of boards faded), no dustwrapper. Pp. 285 (faint spotting on page edges and endpapers; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down).

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 278 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Blue-grey and black spine with black, red, and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$3.00 net", has moderate shelving wear, mild to moderate wear along the extremities, chipping along the joints and fore edges, scratches on the rear cover, tears along the head edges and spine, and moderate age-toning. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, mild wear along the extremities, stains on the rear board, and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Text block has mild splitting to the gutter pages 89-121, stains on the rear end-page and paste-down, moderate age-toning throughout, mild wear along the edges, and faded dark red inking along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. Albert Camus was born November 7, 1913 in Dréan, Algeria (then French Algeria). Camus' mother was deaf and illiterate, his father killed in acting in 1914 serving in World War I and he would grow up very poor pied-noir (a slang term for French and other European people born in Algeria). Camus would be diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1930, at which time he moved in with his uncle Gustave Acault. Living with his uncle, Camus found a great love for philosophy, taking particularly to Greek philosophers and Nietzsche. This love of philosophy would push Camus to completing a degree in philosophy in 1936. During and after his time in university, Camus would join the Algerian Communist Party and Algerian People's Party, both of which sought freedom from colonial rule in Algeria. Camus' work with the ACP greatly involved organizing the "Théâtre du Travail" [Worker's Theater] which would be renamed "Théâtre de l'Equipe" [Theater of the Team] after Camus and the ACP split. Some of the scripts written for "Théâtre de l'Equipe" would become the basis for his later novels. In 1938 Camus solidified his anti-colonial feelings, working for a leftist newspaper which spoke out against the colonial regime as well as the rising fascist regimes across Europe. In 1940 Camus moved to Paris after the banning of the newspaper, there producing his "first cycle" of works on the absurd, including his most famous work "L'Étranger" ("The Stranger"). With the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of France, Camus fled Paris, moving first to Lyon in southeast France, then to Algeria, and then to the Frech Alps to recover from a flare up of tuberculosis. It was in the Alps that Camus began work on his "second cycle" of works, now dealing more with revolt. "La Peste" or "The Plague" would be published in 1947 in France, and in 1948 in the US riding on Camus' infamy gained both for his earliest works and for his role in the French Resistance against German occupation. It depicts the Algerian city of Oran amidst a devastating plague and many different people's reactions to it, from feelings of despair to those who fight bravely against the illness. Both Camus' own tuberculosis and a cholera epidemic which killed a large portion of Oran in 1849 were inspirations for the novel, though it was set in the 1940's. The novel has been noted as allegorical for the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. Upon it's release, "The Plague" received generally positive critical reception with moderate commercial success. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the novel became a best-seller with publisher Penguin Classics reporting difficulties matching demand. Many hailed "The Plague" as a reflection of the time, with lockdown measures compared to the novel's cordon sanitaire, and Camus' own daughter noting that it should be inspiration for people to take responsibility in how they reacted to the pandemic. 1387500. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First American edition. First American edition, first printing. vi, 278, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blindstamped front board, gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine with tiny stain to front board, old bookstore ticket on front free endpaper, in a Very Good dust jacket, price-clipped, rubbed along edges, tiny chip in top of front panel, a few tape mends to verso. Camus' existentialist novel, La Peste in the original French, set in Oran, Algeria.

Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 154, [1] pp. with advertisement page tipped in at front. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with maroon spine lettering and red topstain; lacking dust jacket. Very Good with lean and fading to spine, light waterstaining and scattered foxing to cloth. Minimal soiling and previous owner inscription to front endsheet. Camus' existential novel made a splash when it was translated into English in 1946 -- the New York Times called him "an outstanding leader of the writers who have emerged in France since the war" -- and is now taught in schools worldwide.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 155, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in brown, red topstain. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, light toning and moderate soiling, and creasing to lower rear panel. An attractive copy of the existentialist classic. The Stranger was first published in France in 1942, in a limited print run of 4,400 copies. By 1946, Camus was an international celebrity thanks to his role as editor of the Resistance journal Combat, and his novel was simultaneously published in Britain and the United States to great acclaim.

First American Edition. First American edition. [vi], 154, [1] pp. Bound in publisher'sl tan cloth with maroon spine lettering, red topstain. Basically Fine, contents unmarked, hint of toning to spine, lacking the dust jacket. A very nice copy of the classic existential novel.