The Outsider (Stranger) Albert Camus

Rare to find with dust jacket in good condition. Has been well preserved. English translation by Stuart Gilbert with an introduction by Cyril Connolly. Dust jacket art designed by Edward Bowden. First UK edition. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1946). Small 8vo. Original blue publisher's linen cloth in original unclipped dust jacket. Pages: ii, 104. Near fine. Dust jacket unclipped, slight weathering to edges. Some previous repair work has been done to inner faces of dust jacket. Hardcover boards show some minor age-toning along edges and a single brown marking to rear cover. Contents near fine, some minor foxing along edges of text block. Originally published "L'Etranger" (The Stranger) in 1942, this is Camus' first published novella. This version, published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, is the first edition published in the English language in 1946. The title was changed to "The Outsider" in this edition to avoid confusion with another translation of Maria Kuncewiczowa's novel already published with the same name. In the US editions the original title was maintained. The Outsider (Stranger) is Camus' first published work and explores themes such as the absurdity that can dictate our existence and questions the human condition. Through the inner thoughts of the protagonist, Mersault, the book is used by Camus as a device to illustrate that life is absurd, the universe has no inherent higher meaning, and that the reader must confront the reality that we, perhaps, have no higher purpose.