The Fall

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. "The Fall" (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - and our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured.

• The Plague
• The Stranger
• The Stranger
• Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
• The Modern Classics Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Vintage Classics)
• Exile and the Kingdom
• Friday
• A Happy Death
• The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt