# The Outsider

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- Book: [The Outsider](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-outsider) ([The Outsider.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-outsider.md))
- Authors: [Albert Camus](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-139-8
- Pages: 160
- Published: 1998-10-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that this early success was no passing fashion: The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable and the excitement of a thriller and remains one of the most widely read and influential classics of the century.