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The outsider

Colin Wilson

1956288 pagesabout 4–7 hours
1956
first published
  • 1956Houghton Mifflin · 288 pages · ENG
  • 1956Houghton Mifflin Co. · 288 pages · ENG
  • 1956Dell · 302 pages · ENG
  • 1956GollanczPaperbacks · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780575048041
  • 1961Houghton · 288 pages · ENG
  • 1963Pan Books · 332 pages · ENG
  • 1964Gollancz · 288 pages · ENG
  • 1974V. Gollancz · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780575006805

The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956. Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Herman Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky and G. I. Gurdjieff - Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him.

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