Summer in Algiers

Paperback. English. Publisher: Penguin. 55pp.

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Every book tells a story. And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. Albert Camus was deeply concerned by the question of whether life was truly worth living in a universe he believed to be godless. Penguin Modern Classics publish all of Camus's existentialist masterpieces, including The Outsider and The Plague . In these essays, set in his birthplace of Algeria, he explores both the beauty and the absurdity of the human condition