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Remarks: FIRST AMERICAN 1955, SPINE NOT CREASED ~NOT XLIBRARY~~AMAZON HANDLES SHIPPING CHARGES PLUS ALL CREDIT CARDS~SELLING BOOKS SINCE 1968~ SMOKE FREE HOME~edgewear~Browning throughout due to age~.Albert Camus was born in Mondovi,Algeria,in 1913.After earning a degree in philosophy,he worked at various jobs,ending up in journalism.In the thirties,he ran a theatrical company,and during the war was active in the French Resistance,editing an important underground paper,Combat.The fundamental subject of ''The Myth of Sysyphus'' is this :it is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning: therefore it is legitimate to meet the problem of suicide face to face.Among his major works are four widely praised works of fiction,The Stranger(1946), The Plague 1948,The Fall (1957),and Exile and the Kingdom(1958):and two s of philosophical essays,The Rebel(1954) and the pieces in this volume.Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1957.
