{"product_id":"9780241862650","title":"The Outsider","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwentieth-Century Classics, a new hardback series from Penguin Classics: the era's greatest books with cover artwork from its most celebrated photographers, bound in signature eau-de-nil cloth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. And 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 and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra 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 and dream-like atmosphere of \u003ci\u003eL'Étranger\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCover photograph by Rankin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57711458320757,"sku":"9780241862650","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780241862650.jpg?v=1793629850","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780241862650","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}