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ⓘ About Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a renowned author, journalist, philosopher, and a Nobel Prize winner from France. He was well known for writing fiction, philosophical, and cultural novels. Camus is known to have contributed to the progress of popular philosophy called absurdism. In his essay called The Rebel, Camus has written that in his entire life he opposed the nihilism beliefs and delved deep into the belief of individual freedom. Camus won the Nobel Prize when he was 44 years old and is the 2nd youngest individual to receive the prestigious award. He never classified himself as an existentialist, but others usually classified him to be so throughout his lifetime. In an interview given in 1945, Camus declared that he was not associated with any ideologies.
All Book Series by Albert Camus
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2004
San Francisco Stories
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 1990 Anthology · John Miller
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
Book 3 of 12 · published 1992 Co-authored · William Shakespeare,Virginia Woolf,Ambrose Bierce,Leo Tolstoy,Graham Greene,Langston Hughes,Emily Dickinson,John Donne,Plato,Jorge Luis Borges,Gustave Flaubert,Robert Coles,Walker Percy,Cynthia Ozick,William Styron,Dorothy Parker,Sylvia Plath,Primo Levi,Phillip Lopate,John Miller,Genevieve Anderson,Alfred Alvarez,Émile Durkheim,Howard I. Kushner
New Orleans Stories
Book 4 of 12 · published 1992 Anthology · John Miller,Genevieve Anderson
Chicago Stories
Book 5 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · Stuart Dybek,John Miller
Southwest Stories
Book 6 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · D.H. Lawrence,Alison Moore,Barry Gifford,Sandra Cisneros,Larry McMurtry,Sam Shepard,Leslie Marmon Silko,C.G. Jung,John Miller,Georgia O'Keefe
Florida Stories
Book 7 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · Dave Barry,Elmore Leonard,Ernest Hemingway,John D. MacDonald,Damon Runyon,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Stephen Crane,Zora Neale Hurston,Elizabeth Bishop,Tennessee Williams,Alison Lurie,Wallace Stevens,John Sayles,John James Audubon,Joy Williams,Joan Didion,John Miller,KirstenMiller,William Bartram
Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems
Book 8 of 12 · published 1994 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
Alaska Stories
Book 9 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
Texas Stories
Book 10 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
San Francisco Thrillers
Book 11 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · Tim Smith,John Miller
Cape Cod Stories
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2002 Anthology · Tim Smith,John Miller
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 1992
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
Book 2 of 3 · published 2018
Writers: Their Lives and Works
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2018
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Albert Camus?
Albert Camus was a renowned author, journalist, philosopher, and a Nobel Prize winner from France. He was well known for writing fiction, philosophical, and cultural novels. Camus is known to have contributed to the progress of popular philosophy called absurdism.
Which Albert Camus series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Collection of Plays series, the earliest of Albert Camus's multi-book series: it opens with Caligula and Three Other Plays (1958) and runs to 3 books across 1958–2004, ending with The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays (2004).
How many books has Albert Camus written?
Albert Camus has 52 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1937 and 2023. 3 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Collection of Plays series with 3 books — and 49 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Albert Camus's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Albert Camus's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Collection of Plays (1958–2004, 3 books).
How are Albert Camus's books organised into series?
This guide splits Albert Camus's 52 books into 1 named series and 49 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Collection of Plays (3 books, 1958–2004).