The PlagueChaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. |
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Page 72
... closed overnight , and others began to put up " Sold Out " notices , while crowds of buyers stood waiting at their doors . Oran assumed a novel appearance . You saw more pedestri- ans , and in the slack hours numbers of people , reduced ...
... closed overnight , and others began to put up " Sold Out " notices , while crowds of buyers stood waiting at their doors . Oran assumed a novel appearance . You saw more pedestri- ans , and in the slack hours numbers of people , reduced ...
Page 166
... closed on them once again . Obviously all this meant giving up what was most per- sonal in their lives . Whereas in the early days of the plague they had been struck by the host of small details that , while meaning absolutely nothing ...
... closed on them once again . Obviously all this meant giving up what was most per- sonal in their lives . Whereas in the early days of the plague they had been struck by the host of small details that , while meaning absolutely nothing ...
Page 194
... closed his eyes , he seemed to feel its tumult mingling with the fever of his own blood . And then , at one with the tor- tured child , he struggled to sustain him with all the remain- ing strength of his own body . But , linked for a ...
... closed his eyes , he seemed to feel its tumult mingling with the fever of his own blood . And then , at one with the tor- tured child , he struggled to sustain him with all the remain- ing strength of his own body . But , linked for a ...
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anyhow asthma Black Death Bois de Boulogne breath café camp Castel concierge Cottard crowd CRUZ The University dark death disease doctor door epidemic exile eyes face Father Paneloux feeling fellow citizens felt fever followed gates gave gazed Gonzales Grand hand heard heart hope horse hoofs hospital hour idea journalist knew Library UNIVERSITY light living looked magistrate mind Mme Rieux Montélimar morning mother narrator never night once Oran Othon patient pestilence plague pneumonic plague police Prefect quarantine quicklime railway directory Rambert realized Rieux asked Rieux replied round sanitary seemed sentries serum silence smile sort sound street streetcars suffering talking Tarrou asked tell there's thing thought tion told took town townsfolk turned University Library UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA voice waiting walked week wife window words