The Fall and Exile & the Kingdom by Albert Camus [1964 / THE MODERN LIBRARY] vintage paperback from the pleasure-filled early years

from the pleasure-filled early years at the Petit Trianon to the terror and humiliation of her imprisonment with her family

and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic

And in the end

and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning

Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life

The Fall and Exile & the Kingdom by Albert Camus [1964 / THE MODERN LIBRARY] vintage paperback from the pleasure-filled early yearsFIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION HARDCOVER [1964] MODERN LIBRARY Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket has some mild tanning, a few minuscule edge tears and a price clipped front panel. Book itself is like new. In the Fall, Jean Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own