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 15
... coming out , they're coming out , " with senile glee . On April 28 , when the Ransdoc Bureau announced that 8,000 rats had been collected , a wave of something 15 Part I.
... coming out , they're coming out , " with senile glee . On April 28 , when the Ransdoc Bureau announced that 8,000 rats had been collected , a wave of something 15 Part I.
Page 65
... coming back to the same streets and usually , owing to the smallness of the town , these were streets in which , in happier days , they had walked with those who now were absent . Thus the first thing that plague brought to our town was ...
... coming back to the same streets and usually , owing to the smallness of the town , these were streets in which , in happier days , they had walked with those who now were absent . Thus the first thing that plague brought to our town was ...
Page 185
... coming out of the office . Tarrou was sitting at a black wood desk , with his sleeves rolled up , mopping up with his handkerchief a trickle of sweat in the bend of his arm . The office , a small , white- painted room , smelt of drugs ...
... coming out of the office . Tarrou was sitting at a black wood desk , with his sleeves rolled up , mopping up with his handkerchief a trickle of sweat in the bend of his arm . The office , a small , white- painted room , smelt of drugs ...
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