Exile and the Kingdom is a collection of six short stories by French-Algerian writer Albert Camus. The underlying theme of these stories is human loneliness and feeling foreign and isolated in one's own society. Camus writes about outsiders living in Algeria who straddle the divide between the Muslim world and France. The six works collected in this volume are: -"The Adulterous Woman" ("La Femme adult�re") -"The Renegade or a Confused Spirit" ("Le Ren�gat ou un esprit confus") -"The Silent Men" ("Les Muets") -"The Guest" ("L'H�te") -"Jonas or the Artist at Work" ("Jonas ou l'artiste au travail") -"The Growing Stone" ("La Pierre qui pousse")