London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First Edition. 103 pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. First British edition of Camus' first novel and masterpiece, translation by Stuart Gilbert. Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." The story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.