Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation & spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century Today more than fifty years after its first appearance we can see that this early success was no passing fashion The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable & the excitement of a thriller & remains one of the most widely read & influential classics of the century ...

FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL & LIVED TO TELL THE TALE At eighteen Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF At twenty-five he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War Before he turned thirty he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil war in living memory Three years later broke & out of work he wrote his game-changing first novel The Day of the Jackal He never looked back Forsyth has seen some of the most exhilarating moments of the last century from the inside travelling the world once or twice on her majesty's secret service He's been shot at he's been arrested he's even been seduced by an undercover agent But all the while he felt he was an outsider This is his story ...

' My mother died today Or maybe yesterday I don't know' In The Outsider (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms Meursault his anti-hero will not lie When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others & when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society & the law Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd & revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world Sandra Smith's translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties & dream-like atmosphere of L' Etranger Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist & playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) The Plague (1947) The Just (1949) The Rebel (1951) & The Fall (1956) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 & his last novel The First Man unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 & was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton Sandra Smith was born & raised in New York City & is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature & Language She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize ...

The classic study of alienation creativity & the modern mind THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956 thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers & thinkers Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation & defined those affected by it as a type the outsider Through the works & lives of various artists including Kafka Camus Hemingway Hesse Lawrence Van Gogh Shaw Nietzsche & Dostoevsky Wilson explored the psyche of the outsider his effect on society & society's on him Nothing that has happened in the decades since has made THE OUTSIDER any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this most persistent of modern-day preoccupations ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the vein of Taken Craig Fairbrass stars as Lex a British military contractor who is told that his daughter has died When he arrives in Los Angeles he discovers that the body isn&t his daughters & that an internet fraudster is holding her hostage Lex sets out to save his daughter wreaking havoc through the streets of LA trying to rescue her ...

' If an Outsider wields the blade the House of Koronos burns' Hylas is only a boy but he knows three things The Gods exist Magic is real Somebody wants him dead Hunted & alone Hylas is desperate to find his missing sister His quest takes him across the hostile mountains & treacherous seas of Ancient Greece His only friend is a girl on the run His only guide is a wild dolphin And his murderous enemies are closing in This action-packed adventure story is perfect for kids aged 9-12' Electrifying'
- Independent on Sunday' The reader's attention is caught from the first linespellbinding'
- Telegraph' Set to become another children's classic'
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Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola & starring Patrick Swayze Rob Lowe & Tom Cruise SE Hinton's The Outsiders is a young adult novel of enduring power This Penguin Modern Classics edition is published with an introduction by Jodi Picoult author of My Sister's Keeper The Greasers & the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets Ponyboy a fourteen-year-old brawler chainsmoker & dreamer is a fiercely loyal greaser But a single murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life & overturn everything he thinks he knows The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when SE Hinton was only seventeen laying bare the hopes & terrors between teenage bravado in a world of drive-ins drag races & switchblades It confronted America with a new breed of anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide & became a bestselling classic of youthful rebellion Susan Eloise Hinton (b 1950) wrote her first book The Outsiders in 1967 when she was seventeen years old Hinton is also the author of That Was When This Is Now (1971) adapted into a film starring Emilio Estevez & Morgan Freeman; Rumble Fish (1975) also adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola starring Mickey Rourke Nicholas Cage & Dennis Hopper; Tex (1979); Taming the Star Runner (1988) & many others Hinton lives in Oklahoma If you enjoyed The Outsiders you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Gritty emotional & very authentic' Jodi Picoult' The Outsiders is a teenage epic' Francis Ford Coppola ...

The Outsiders is an outstanding story of teenage rebellion written when the author was only 17 years old It is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Youngsters in a small Oklahoma town have split into two gangs divided by money tastes & attitude The Socs' idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy Curtis Ponyboy knows what to expect & knows he can count on his brothers & friends
- until the night someone takes things too far The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells


















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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three former Texas Rangers reunite to combat a crooked town boss with their advancing years meaning they must rely on their wits to get the better of their adversary Walter Brennan Nash Crawford Edgar Buchanan Jason Fitch Andy Devine Judge Amos Polk Jack Elam Sheriff Clyde Barnes Gypsy Rose Lee Cassie Directed by Jean Yarbrough ...

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