A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics)

As always with Albert Camus, this book is a good starting point for those only hearing of Camus. A philosopher, a teacher, lover.

I was really taken by his economical writings: how he could paint a room, or surroundings, and lean on his insight about life in one paragraph.

The book arrived in excellent condition and within 2 days. Its early Camu, and perhaps a watered down version of what we read in his later novel The Stranger, though the protagonists are the same. Anyone studying early modernist writing should read this.

I loved and held onto every word. You doubt this book at the start of it, but then you simply can’t put it down. Something compels you to continue reading. The words string together so perfectly. The pictures in it are painted so vividly. Highly recommend.

Not as good as the Outsider, enjoyable profound imagery and an entice central character , would recommend to a fan of Camus

This book is essential reading for all who love Camus. You will not be disappointed!

just great - re read after 30 years and even more powerful.

I've read most of Camus' works. This has some good themes and atmosphere. It was first published in 1973, thirteen years after his death. It was an early work and described in the blurb as in many ways a precursor to L'Etranger. There are some passages that reappear in L'Etranger in similar form, but they are trivial and the two characters are not the same person, so it is slightly annoying that they are named Mersault and Meursault. This book has a third person narrator, whereas L'Etranger has first person. The plots are very different. Well worth reading, with the expected thought - provoking ideas.