Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology -- Chapter 1 Contexts -- 1 Biographical sketch -- 2 Historical contexts -- 3 The Stranger and the war -- Chapter 2 The Stranger -- 4 Meursault's languages -- 5 A mother unmourned? -- 6 Class and race -- 7 An Arab is somehow murdered -- 8 An Arab forgotten and a mother appeased -- 9 Meursault judges the judges -- 10 God is dead and Existentialism is born -- Chapter 3 Early Camus and Sartre -- 11 The cycle of the absurd -- 12 Different views of freedom -- Chapter 4 Camus and the Algerian war -- Chapter 5 Why and how we read The Stranger: a guide to further reading -- 13 Contemporaries, precursors and followers -- 14 Suggestions for further reading -- 15 Translations -- 16 Lo Straniero.