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The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson. [1]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), Hermann Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake ...
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
As an English teacher, I've read numerous survey-reviews of the field that identify Maureen Daly's Seventeenth Summer (1942) as the first YA novel — i.e., written for a teen audience rather than being an adult novel that teens also read — and The Outsiders as the first in the modern genre of problem novels that makes up much of contemporary ...
The novel seems to mark the low point of Wright's despair, for it lacks Camus's humanitarian hope or Jean-Paul Sartre’s belief in social change. [ citation needed ] Later critics, however, have suggested that The Outsider is a rejection of existentialism or is even a Christian existentialist novel.
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The Outsider was started in 1961. [2] The founding company was Loujon Press, [2] which was the product of Jon Edgar Webb and his wife Gypsy Lou Webb. [3] [4] In addition to The Outsider, Loujon published two books each by Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller.
Wolf is a young-adult novel by Gillian Cross, published by Oxford in 1990. Set in London, it features communal living, terrorism, and wolves (according to Library of Congress Subject Headings ) [ 1 ] and a teenage girl in relation to her mother, father, and paternal grandmother.