<p><b>A new collection of Albert Camus'' most brilliant speeches and lectures</b><br><br>''Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...''<br><br>This definitive new collection of Albert Camus'' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century''s most enduring writers. From a pre-war speech on the politics of the Mediterranean - delivered when he was just twenty-two - to his impassioned Nobel Prize acceptance lectures and several pieces appearing in English for the first time, <i>Speaking Out</i> shows Camus'' clarity and subtlety of thought, his ''stubborn humanism'' and his unerring commitment to freedom and justice.<br><br>Translated by Quintin Hoare</p>