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First Impression. Octavo (19cm); gray-green textured cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; [ii],104pp. Hint of sunning to spine, scattered foxing to upper and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 6s. net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears to extremities, and some faint foxing to rear panel; Very Good+. Camus's first novel, and the first to be published in English, preceding the American edition published by Knopf, and with an introduction by Cyril Connolly not present in the American edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's first-person narrative of solitude and disaffection has become a classic of existential literature, and the basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Connolly 100.

L'Etranger (The Stranger) is a novel by French author Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus's philosophy of the absurd and existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the latter label.