The first man

Author(s)

• Camus, Albert

Bibliographic Information

The first man

Albert Camus ; translated from the French by David Hapgood

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin, 1996

Other Title

Le premier homme

Uniform Title

Le premier homme

Note

This translation originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Told as a novel, this is a moving account of the author's poverty-stricken childhood in Algeria, the love of his mother and the old schoolteacher who saved him from ignorance. The book acts as a novel on Algeria, on the relationship between man and the land, and between the French and Arabs.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA28833458
• ISBN:
  • 0140257241
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: v, 261 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 843.912
  • NDC8 : 953
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : French fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 20th century -- Translated from French
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461