50 Book Challenge 59-60 ~~ Burmese Days by George Orwell, The Outsider by Albert Camus

...Days – George Orwell (London: Penguin, 1986, orig.publ. 1934) The Outsider – Albert Camus (London: Penguin, 1983, trans. 1982)...to the point where it actually made Camus' novel seem like light relief. I ... not joking when I say that. Camus's story of a man who ... hardly a barrel of laughs, but Camus's spare prose (and Orwell doesn'... I'd not previously read any Camus but I admit I'm hooked ...

... far down. Stop existing and push Alec and Simon into the limelight. --Amanda P.S. Your little archetype boyfriend needs to go, too. Dear Meursault, [Albert Camus, The Stranger ] I know your intent as a character was to frustrate the reader and damn if you didn't succeed. I hate you. I hate...

#55

...Bostonians , Henry James | ♥ For Whom the Bell Tolls , Ernest Hemingway | ♥ For Esme - with Love and Squalor , JD Salinger | The Outsider , Albert Camus | The Princess Diaries: Ten out of Ten , Meg Cabot | The Vicar of Bullhampton , Anthony Trollope | Molesworth , Geoffrey Willans | Villette , Charlotte ...

#54

...Bostonians , Henry James | ♥ For Whom the Bell Tolls , Ernest Hemingway | ♥ For Esme - with Love and Squalor , JD Salinger | The Outsider , Albert Camus | The Princess Diaries: Ten out of Ten , Meg Cabot | The Vicar of Bullhampton , Anthony Trollope | Molesworth , Geoffrey Willans | Villette , Charlotte ...

New French Article-It's really good

... created Fear Factor. Kristen has an older brother, Cameron and 2 adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor. She adores literature and especially the French author Albert CAmus. One of her favorite novel is L'Etranger. She doesn't want to talk about her love affair with Robert Pattinson but she decided last month...

"A desire for truth is a passion which spares nothing."-Albert Camus "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."-Albert Camus

The Fall by Albert Camus

Original French Title: La Chute wikipedia View Poll: #1492588 *2 years ago: Hammered *

Albert Camus

"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things." "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." "...

1001 Books to read before you die

... Iris Murdoch 386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich..., Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme 422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson 423. ...J.D. Salinger 530. The Rebel – Albert Camus 531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett 532...– Italo Calvino 559. The Plague – Albert Camus 560. Back – Henry Green ...– William Faulkner 579. The Stranger – Albert Camus 580. In Sicily – Elio ...

The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time

... Rabelais [ ] 53 Francesco Petrarch [ ] 54 Emily Dickinson [ ] 55 Edgar Allan Poe [ ] 56 Henry Fielding [ ] 57 Joseph Conrad [ ] 58 Robert Browning [ ] 59 Albert Camus [ ] 60 Charlotte Bronte [ ] 61 Emily Bronte [ ] 62 Jean Racine [ ] 63 Mark Twain [ ] 64 August Strindberg [ ] 65 Emile Zola [ ] 66 Jorge Luis Borges [ ...