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A Happy Death (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas)

A Happy Death (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas)

by Albert Camus (Author), RichardHoward (Translator)

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 25 Oct 1990
ISBN 10: 0140180141
ISBN 13: 9780140180145
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957

Author Bio
French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Among his works, The Plague (1947), The Just (1949) The Fall (1956). He was killed in a road accident in 1960. His last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994.