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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
The stranger
Uniform Title:
Étranger. English (Ward)
ISBN:
9780679720201

9780394533056

9780812416695

9780881032475
Edition:
1st Vintage International edition.
Publication:
New York : Vintage International, 1989.
Physical Description:
vii, 123 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
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
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 6.8 6.

Reading Counts High School 8.9 6 NR.

Accelerated Reader AR Upper Grades 6.8 6 quiz: 5997 disk(s): ARHS1000D3, C024.

Reading Counts RC High School 8.90 6 quiz: 11009.
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