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Eight lyrical essays drawing on Greek mythologyAlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy and became a journalist. Although he moved to Paris, he was always strongly associated with Algeria. His classic existentialist novel The Outsider was published in 1942 and he was awarded a Nobel prize in 1957. Many of his books, including The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus, are published in Penguin, and the eight pieces collected here appear in Selected Essays and Notebooks.