A peerless work of philosophical fiction that is as shocking today as when it was first published the Penguin Modern Classics" edition of Albert Camus' " The Outsider" is translated by Joseph Laredo. Meursault will not pretend. After the death of his mother everyone is shocked when he shows no sadness. & when he commits a random act of violence in Algiers society is baffled. Why would this seemingly law-abiding bachelor do such a thing? & why does he show no remorse even when it could save his life? His refusal to satisfy the feelings of others only increases his guilt in the eyes of the law. Soon Meursault discovers that he is being tried not simply for his crime but for his lack of emotion
- a reaction that condemns him for being an outsider. For Meursault this is an insult to his reason & a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life. In " The Outsider" ("L' Etranger") his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend & is prepared to face the indifference of the universe courageously & alone. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is the author of a number of best-selling & highly influential works all of which are published by Penguin. They include " The Fall" " The Outsider" & " The First Man". Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France but beyond that his fame has been international. If you enjoyed " The Outsider" you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's " Nausea" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "A compelling dreamlike fable". (" Guardian"). " The story of a beach murder one of the century's classic novels. " Blood & sand"". (J. G. Ballard " Daily Telegraph")."
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Aloof solitary impassive the crack goalie is followed in the streets by entranced small boys. He vies with the matador & the flying aces an object of thrilled adulation. He is the lone eagle the man of mystery the last defender. Nabokov (quoted here) Camus Sir Arthur Conan Doyle James Joyce even Julian Barnes.. .its safe to say the goalkeeper hasnt always been a team player. In THE OUTSIDER Jonathan Wilson traces the sometimes dangerous intellectual & literary preoccupations of the keeper & looks at how the position has secured a certain existential cool as well as taking a deep tactical & technical look at the history of goalkeeping. There has been the odd minor work on goalkeeping in the past but nothing like this in scope or depth. ...

Outsider is the life of a child boy adolescent student & young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s & the sudden prosperity & social changes of the 60s affected by the moral attitudes of the day by the Blitz post-war austerity & the new freedoms of the later 50s that were resisted with such obstinacy by the old regime. It is about education in the almost forgotten sense of the pursuit of learning for its own sake. It is about the imposed experiences of school & National Service & the chosen experience of being a student at the Courtauld Institute under Johannes Wilde & Anthony Blunt. It is about sex pre-pubertal in adolescence & in early adulthood & the price to be paid for it. It is about art & the art market in the turbulent years of its change from the pursuit of well-connected gentleman to the professional occupation of experts. ...

Listed in the Sunday Times ' Books of the Year' & Daily Mail ' Biographies for Christmas 2011' Outsider is the life of a child boy adolescent student & young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s & the sudden prosperity & social changes of the 60s affected by the moral attitudes of the day by the Blitz post-war austerity & the new freedoms of the later 50s that were resisted with such obstinacy by the old regime. It is about education in the almost forgotten sense of the pursuit of learning for its own sake. It is about the imposed experiences of school & National Service & the chosen experience of being a student at the Courtauld Institute under Johannes Wilde & Anthony Blunt. It is about sex pre-pubertal in adolescence & in early adulthood & the price to be paid for it. It is about art & the art market in the turbulent years of its change from the pursuit of well-connected gentleman to the professional occupation of experts. ...

Geordan Murphy does not come from the leafy suburbs of south Dublin or the rugby hotbeds of Limerick or Cork. As a teenager he played Gaelic football for Kildare minors. But his greatest love & his true genius was for rugby. Now nearing the end of a career that has seen him win over seventy Ireland caps
- a number that a great many supporters & pundits believe should be considerably higher
- & attain the captaincy of the top English club Leicester Geordan Murphy tells his own story for the first time. A delightful read...brilliant". (Rugby World). " Bright breezy entertaining & revealing". (Gerry Thornley " Irish Times"). " An open honest & entertaining book". ("RTE Guide")."

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The Outsiders by S E Hinton is a ground-breaking timeless story by a brilliant writer. '...the hand at the back of my neck was strong. I'm drowning I thought.. .' The Socs' idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect & knows he can count on his brothers & friends
- until the night someone takes things too far. The original teenage rebel story. The 40th anniversary edition. S. E. Hinton was only seventeen when The Outsiders was first published in the USA. She grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma where the story takes place & lived in a borderline neighbourhood mixing with both greasers & socs. This experience helped her to understand the boys about whom she writes. The Outsiders was made into a major film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. S.E. Hinton went on to write several novels for teenagers including: Tex Rumble Fish & That Was Then This Is Now. Married with one son S.E. Hinton was the first recipient of the American Library Association's YASD/SLJ Award for her oustanding contribution to Young Adult Literature.
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Winnie Monks has never forgotten
- or forgiven
- the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army

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Written by Judd Winick Art by Carlos DAnda Karl Kerschl Dan Jurgens & others Cover by Doug Mahnke The thrilling third collection of the hot title collects OUTSIDERS 16-23! This volume

Includes:: the 3-part Most Wanted" story arc featuring television personality John Walsh as well as an IDENTITY CRISIS tie-in story guest-starring Batman!"

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Winnie Monks has never forgotten
- or forgiven
- the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army

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