Once overshadowed by Sartre Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated
French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons
for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity Camus cuts to the heart
of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most
powerful novel at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a
parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own
tale of decline and self-discovery Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short
stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also
contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which
reflect on the themes developed in the fiction.
