Throughout history some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other. They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution. They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted. They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are. Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain & watch it roll back to the valley below The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.