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1	Stranger more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist This handy guide places Albert Camus' The Stranger, one of the seminal texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature in general, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. In it, Patrick McCarthy examines the way the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction. In addition, he explores the parallels and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Confessions more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The wretched of the earth more books like this by Frantz Fanon add to wishlist Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, it analyses the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom. Fanon, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Confessions of Saint Augustine more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Justine more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The first man more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist The unfinished manuscript of "The First Man" was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.13! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The outsider more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.34! \| first editions
8	Clea more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist Durrell's monumental four-novel exploration of love, character, friendship, and death includes JUSTINE, CLEA, BALTHAZAR, and MOUNTOLIVE. Published between 1957 and 1960, the quartet, which follows the romantic and political fortunes of a group of friends in Egypt, was an international success, and marked Durrell as an important writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Mountolive more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist The intrigues of "Justine" and "Balthazar" multiply and deepen in this third volume of "The Alexandria Quartet". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Night Train to Memphis more books like this by Elizabeth Peters add to wishlist Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, is asked by an intelligence agency to join a luxury Nile cruise because information has come their way concerning the planned theft of some Egyptian antiquities. Vicky suspects that the villain concerned is a man she already knows. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Confessions of St. Augustine more books like this by St Augustine add to wishlist One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 more books like this by Alistair Horne add to wishlist The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a savage colonial war, killing an estimated million Muslim Algerians and expelling the same number of European settlers from their homes. It was to cause the fall of six French prime minsters and the collapse of the Fourth Repbulic and came close to bringing down de Gaulle and - twice - to plunging France into ... see all copies from $7.70! new only from $11.31! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Rabbi's Cat more books like this by Joann Sfar add to wishlist Vibrant with the colors, textures, and feeling of a lost world (one where Jews and Arabs easily coexisted) this graphic novel about an unforgettable cat with the gift of speech is populated with wholly believable and endearing people. see all copies from $3.69! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A dying colonialism more books like this by Frantz Fanon add to wishlist An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a ... see all copies from $2.31! new only from $8.27! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Outline of a Theory of Practice more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist Outline of a theory of practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $25.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	The last life more books like this by Claire Messud add to wishlist "The Last Life" tells the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by their history, brought to the brink of destruction by a single reckless act. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, it is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love and honour, the stories we tell ourselves and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Saint Augustine more books like this by Garry Wills add to wishlist For centuries, Augustine of Hippo's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.32! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa more books like this by Frederick C Leiner add to wishlist When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $4.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Confessions of St. Augustine more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist "Confessions" is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.74! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The First Wave: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery more books like this by James R Benn add to wishlist In this meaty, old-fashioned and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage" ("The Seattle Times"), Lieutenant Billy Boyle must solve a series of murders while trying to rescue the girl he loves, a captured British spy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Toward the African revolution more books like this by Frantz Fanon add to wishlist This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon's greatest ideas -- ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Murder in the Place of Anubis more books like this by Lynda S Robinson, Ph.D. add to wishlist Who has dared to desecrate the sacred place of embalming with a murdererd corpse? Pharaoh Tutankhamun orders Lord Meren, his chief investigator, to find out quickly, before power-mad priests use the incident to undermine his royal authority. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Confessions more books like this by St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist Writing in the last years of the fourth century A.D., St. Augustine of Hippo created what is at once the first true autobiography in Western literature and among the most sophisticated yet accessible theological arguments in the history of Christianity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.23! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria 1955-1957 more books like this by Paul Aussaresses add to wishlist Translated from the French, Aussaresses's memoirs tell of the French-Algerian war in the 1950s through the point-of-view of a French military officer. Aussaresses reveals that he employed torture and political assassinations in his work. see all copies from $5.49! new only from $10.18! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir more books like this by Ted Morgan add to wishlist In this military memoir, Ted Morgan recalls his service in the French Army during the violent war of independence in what was then the French colony of Algeria. The war is notable for the use of torture and collective punishment by the French side and the use of terrorism by the Algerian side. It became the subject of the film THE BATTLE OF ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.52! \| first editions

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