alber camus books

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has anyone read any albert camus? he was a magnificent french author and you can find translation of his books, short stories and essays here in the us all over the place. I read "The Stranger", his first novel, recently and it was one of the most enlightening novels I've read. It did not so much as shine a new philosophical light on me as it did reinforce with stronger words what I already had believed myself. The novel explores "absurdism", closely related to existentialism, and it is the story of a man who commits a fairly useless murder and faces trial for it. There are two translation-- the first was done by Stuart Gilbert in 1946, the second by Matthew ward in 1989 (forgive me if my dates are wrong, I'm tying from the brain here). I reconnend the Stuart Gilbert translation(I have read both) and the more formal tone comes off as easier to read, as well as pleasing fit to the character of Meursault. I have picked up the plague, Camus's second novel and i am going to begin reading shortly if you love symbolism and philosophy in writing, you will love this guy. Fans of Sartre,Dostoevsky, Kafka-- I recommend Camus, though if you like these writers you have most likely heard of Camus.