Albert Camus

The Fall

originally published:
Paris
1956

We offered this copy, one of 225 deluxe copies of the first edition, in our first Classic Book Cards set.

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bio notes:
born: 11/7/1913
died: 1/4/1960
born as: Albert Camus
nationality: France

French novelist, essayist, and playwright who addressed the isolation of the individual in an alien universe, the estrangement of the individual from himself, the problem of evil, and the inescapable finality of death, refelcting the anomie of the postwar intellectual. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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We offered this copy of the first English edition, with striking jacket art by Michael Ayrton, in our Catalog 75.
We offered this copy of the first American edition, which was also the first edition in English, in 2001.