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"The Myth of Sisyphus" is a collection of essays by Camus, including "The Right and the Wrong", "The Wedding Collection", "The Myth of Sisyphus", and "The Rebel". "The Myth of Sisyphus" is one of Camus's masterpieces. The article collects Camus's most in-depth and thorough investigation and analysis of the philosophy of absurdity. "The Anti and the Right" consists of five essays, which record Camus' keen observations, personal feelings and philosophical thinking about daily life. The content is mostly based on the author's own life and family. "Wedding Collection" consists of four articles, recording the author's enjoyment of life in Algeria's natural scenery and cultural landscape. "The Rebel" is a theoretical masterpiece that comprehensively explains Camus's thoughts on resistance. In the book, Camus puts forward the assertion "I resist, therefore I am." The spirit and courage it embodies are enough to echo "The Myth of Sisyphus" and to draw a perfect end to Camus's life of "rising up against the absurd".

"First Man" includes two works: "Exile and the Kingdom of Independence" and "First Man". "Exile and the Independent Kingdom" is a collection of short stories, and "The First Man" is a novel that was unfinished during the author's lifetime. "The First Man" is an unfinished novel by Camus during his lifetime. It mainly tells the story of Jacques, a French Algerian, from childhood to adulthood. This book is Camus's spiritual autobiography, which the author himself calls "my mature novel". In this book, he regarded himself as the "first person" in his family to step out of the primitive state and move toward civilization. "Exile and the Kingdom of Independence" is a short story, including six short stories such as "The Unfaithful Woman", "The Rebel" and "Silent Rage". Its themes are all about the loneliness of living in this world as an emotional and rational person.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" brings together four of Camus's articles - "Absurd Reasoning", "Absurd Man", "Absurd Creation" and "The Myth of Sisyphus". "The Myth of Sisyphus" is the shortest in length, but it is an article that outlines and embodies the essence of Camus's thoughts. He pointed out: "Sisyphus is an absurd hero. Both out of his passion and his hardship." "Every moment he leaves the mountain top, every minute he gradually sneaks into the lair of the gods, he transcends his destiny. He is stronger than the stone he pushes." Several other long articles actually fully elaborated and enriched Camus's thoughts from all aspects.

"Other people always think that a person is in so much pain because the person he loves passed away in one day. In fact, the value of his pain is higher: that is, he discovered that sadness cannot last, and even pain has lost its meaning." After the death of his lover, the Roman monarch Caligula discovered that personality, dignity, and even pain are meaningless in the face of death. He began to use his power to extremes, wantonly destroying and trampling on all the original human systems, good and evil, and emotions, and became a tyrant that everyone feared... He wanted to know what truth is, what eternity is, and wanted to expose all the hypocrisy in the world...

Nobel Prize winner Camus' masterpiece drama, "The Stranger" and "Happy Death" are newly translated by translator Zhang Yiqiao. After Caligula's lover died, he disappeared for three days. When he came back, his temperament changed drastically, and he suddenly claimed that he had discovered the truth, that is, "people are mortal, and they are not happy." Faced with this unchangeable fate, Caligula wanted to achieve the "impossible". He wanted to hold the moon in his hand, mix the sky into the sea, confuse beauty and ugliness, and make the suffering people laugh. He wants to give this century the gift of equality for all living beings. Until the impossible finally covers the earth, and in the end, no one dies and they will all be happy. In order to realize all this, a great trial begins. Caligula pushes the emperor's power to the limit, and everything in the world is waiting to be transformed...

Meursault's mother passed away, but he did not want to cry at her funeral. Soon after, he killed an Arab on the beach. In court, the prosecutor did not elaborate on the case, but refused to let go of Meursault's failure to cry for his mother...

"The Plague" tells the story of Oran, Algeria, where the sudden plague makes people overwhelmed. Politicians are arrogant and ignorant, cover up their faults, and even want to use disasters to gain profits; small people who used to live a depressing life suddenly become famous figures in the city by using their black market connections to bring all kinds of contraband to the people; ordinary people are panicked, helpless, selfish and greedy, and just live a decadent life every day. The plague city was heavily blockaded and no one could enter or exit freely. The people trapped in the city miss their relatives and friends living outside the city day and night. A reporter who went to the city on business was forced to live a life without relatives and friends, and could only hope to kill time by joining a volunteer team. The protagonist, Dr. Rieux, stepped forward to rescue the patient and became sworn friends with some of his colleagues. However, his wife is far away in a nursing home, and her life or death is uncertain. In the end, the plague retreated, but although the noisy gongs and drums diluted people's fear of the disease, the people of Oran will never forget the nightmare that the plague brought to them.

The protagonist Meursault is cold by nature and indifferent to everything, even the death of his mother. Later, Meursault was sentenced to death for accidentally shooting an Arab, but he still didn't care. Instead, the interrogator insisted that he was a ruthless devil who deliberately killed people because he did not shed tears at his mother's funeral, and did not investigate the case itself at all. Meursault has always looked at the world like an outsider, and was eventually forced to destruction by society.

The mature works of Nobel Prize winner Camus. This book includes the novel "The Plague" and the play "Martial Law", which is also about the plague. The reason why these two Camus works are collected into a volume is because they both belong to the "Resistance Series" and because the themes are related to the plague. "The Plague" uses a chronological structure to narrate the beginning and end of the plague in Oran City. Camus used precise writing to describe the subtle changes in human mentality when facing a catastrophic disaster. At the same time, he portrayed the rescue team headed by Dr. Rieux. They are all ordinary little people, but in the most simple moral spirit, they help each other and help others. "Martial Law" is Camus's important exploration in drama. If there was a real epidemic in "The Plague", then in "Martial Law", the plague turned into the god of death, and this disease contained more meanings.

The Plague is one of Camus's most influential and socially significant works. A plague broke out in the North African city of Oran. The protagonist Dr. Rieux stepped forward to rescue the patients at the critical moment and led a large number of people to rise up against the terrible plague, which finally brought the epidemic under control. In a very calm tone, Camus praised the true brave men who faced the bleak situation, and expressed his infinite desire and passion for life.

This book collects the two most famous novels of the literary master Camus, "The Plague" and "The Stranger". "The Plague" is one of Camus's most important masterpieces. It describes the story of a large number of people represented by the protagonist Dr. Rieux who struggled to fight against the plague after an outbreak of plague in a city called Oran in North Africa. "The Stranger" is Camus' famous work. It can be called one of the most epoch-making novels in the Western literary world in the 20th century. The "Outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters in Western literature (philosophy).

The masterpiece of Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, is an immortal masterpiece in the history of literature. An ordinary young employee lived in aimless inertia all day long. One day he was accused by the court of murder, but was eventually sentenced to death for "not crying at his mother's funeral." This book is based on a literal translation of the French text and contains it in its entirety without abridgement. It also corrects dozens of translation flaws and logical errors in other versions. It reproduces the calm, restrained and careless narrative style of the original work.

Camus is a well-known French novelist, essayist and playwright, and a literary master of the philosophy of absurd existence. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "enthusiastic and calm elucidation of contemporary issues raised to human conscience." He was one of the youngest Nobel Prize-winning writers in history. In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly revealed the loneliness of man in an alien world, the increasing alienation of individuals from themselves, and the inevitability of sin and death. However, while he revealed the absurdity of the world, he was not desperate and decadent. He advocated rising up in absurdity and adhering to truth and justice in despair. He pointed out to the world a path of liberal humanitarianism other than Christianity and Marxism. His courage to face the bleak life and his fearless spirit of "knowing that it was impossible but doing it" made him the spokesperson of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation not only in France, but also in Europe and eventually the world after the Second World War. "The Stranger" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the most famous novels with epoch-making significance in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Stranger" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy.

This book contains the works of Camus, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book includes the novel "The Sinking" and the short story collection "Exile and the Kingdom". The translator Shen Zhiming has made a long introduction based on the literature to help readers understand Camus's works. "The Sinking" was originally planned as a chapter in "Exile and the Kingdom", but due to its length, it was published separately. Therefore, the Chinese version will be published in two volumes. "The Sinking" is a painful monologue by the protagonist Jean-Baptiste Clamans that directly touches human nature. In a Mexico City bar in Amsterdam, Klamance, who calls himself the "Judge-Confessor," looked back on the past years. He was once a practicing lawyer and lived a prosperous life, with fame and money. But one night when he was crossing the bridge, a woman jumped into the river behind him and committed suicide. He fell into self-blame for not saving her life, and thus began the road to sinking... He realized that his past was all false, and realized that human nature is irredeemable. "Exile and Kingdom" consists of six short stories. Although the content of each article is different, the protagonists all feel frustrated in their daily lives and struggle to find the "kingdom", that is, the meaning and happiness of life. Therefore, they feel lonely, like "exile".

"The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom" is the second volume of Camus's collected works translated by Guo Hongan. It includes the novella "The Fall" and the short story collection "Exile and the Kingdom", which focuses on the writer's deep reflection on social reality. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist and dramatist, one of the representative writers of existentialism, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Before the 1950s, Camus was always regarded as an existentialist, although he denied it many times. After Camus published his philosophical essay "The Rebel" in 1951, it triggered a year-long debate with Sartre and others, and finally broke with Sartre. Only then did people discover that Camus was a representative figure of the philosophy of the absurd and its literature.

They said, my mother died, but I didn't cry; this was heartless, damn it. Hanging out with my girlfriend the next day; this is unfilial, damn it. Inciting friends and enemies to fight against each other is unjust and deserves to be punished. I am incompatible with heaven and earth, and humans and gods are indignant, but what do you mean by the tricks you try to use to save me? I killed someone just because the summer sun was too harsh...

Camus's mature work after winning the Nobel Prize deeply explores "spiritual exile" and "soul destination", and directly attacks the spiritual dilemma of modern people. Classic translation by Liu Senyao. Specially included is the translator's preface, which provides an in-depth explanation of the creative background and is a key to a deeper understanding of Camus's literary world and existential philosophical vision. This book was the last work published by Camus during his lifetime, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year. This collection of short stories contains six stories set in Europe, Africa, and South America and vary in style from symbolic to realistic to interior monologue. Each story focuses on an exiled character who is struggling in the vastness of nothingness or a strange foreign land, searching for an outlet for freedom and life between reality and hope. Through six stories, this book depicts lonely lives in different situations: women trapped in formal marriages, workers frustrated by capitalists, lonely humanitarians, seemingly smooth artists, self-exiled engineers... Everyone deviates from the secular track, but finds some kind of self-belonging in the wrong path - even if that belonging is still not understood by ordinary people.

"The Stranger" is a novel by Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. It is one of the representative works of this French existentialist writer and one of the most popular literary works in the world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" tells the story from a first-person perspective of an ordinary young employee who lives numbly in aimless inertia all day long. One day he goes to the beach for vacation, gets involved in a conflict, commits a murder, and is ultimately sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people" because "he did not shed a tear at his mother's funeral." It expounds an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society in modern life lead to individual despair and emptiness. And by calmly describing the entire process of a little person being "demonized" by the judicial authorities, it profoundly satirizes the hypocrisy and foolhardy nature of modern law.