{"product_id":"camus-the-outsider","title":"The Outsider","description":"The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus\n\n'Mother died today. \nOr maybe yesterday, I don't know'\n\nMeursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. \nHe is true to himself.\n\nSo  when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper  thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on  life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder.\n\nIn court, it is clear that Meursault's guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do. \n\nHe is on trial for being different - an outsider.\n\n'The story of a beach murder, one of the century's classic novels. Blood and sand'  J.G. Ballard\n\n'A compelling, dreamlike fable'  Guardian\n\nAlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":32679030194261,"sku":"9780241950050N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9780241950050.jpg?v=1598609905","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/camus-the-outsider","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}