The First Man

Albert Camus

Original title: Le premier homme

earliest edition we have, 1994 Feryane, 1995

Huang guan cong shu -- di 2779 zhong

"The First Man is a radiant, deeply moving novel of childhood. Camus intended it as the opening book of a projected epic - his War and Peace - but in its storytelling magic and its evocative power, it has a satisfying completeness on its own, covering, as it does, the years of Camus's childhood in Algeria. As he recaptures memories of growing up fatherless with a deaf-mute mother and an illiterate, tyrannical grandmo...

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David Hapgood 1 printing we hold · 2001 · Penguin Classics

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Editions we hold

First Man edition · 2018 · Pegasus Books · 9781681779287
Pierwszy czlowiek edition · 2016 · W.A.B. / GW Foksal · 9788328021112
Le premier homme edition · 2013 · Futuropolis · 267 pages · 9782754809788
First Man edition · 2013 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141914206
Der erste Mensch paperback · 2010 · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · 9783499253096
El Primer Hombre paperback · 2005 · TusQuets · 9789509779921
El Primer Hombre/The First Man paperback · 2002 · TusQuets · 150 pages · 9788472238312
El Primer Hombre hardcover · 2002 · Tusquets · 9789687723037
Der erste Mensch. Sonderausgabe. hardcover · 2001 · Rowohlt Tb. · 285 pages · 9783499231872
The First Man paperback · 2001 · Penguin Classics · 1 pages · 9780140188851
The First Man paperback · 2001 · Penguin Classics · 272 pages · 9780141185231
Der erste Mensch. Erläuterungen und Materialien. paperback · 2000 · Bange · 91 pages · 9783804416697

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