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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates
2) The stranger
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with an aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and ends up killing a man. His trial is a proceeding of absurd and incidental trivialities which yields a ridiculous and inevitable outcome.
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Tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was on the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual.
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