The Stranger

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

L'Étranger was adapted into a feature film in 2025 by François Ozon, starring Benjamin Voisin as Meursault and shot in striking monochrome.

This edition was published in 1989.