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 136
... face nodded slow approval once more . Some time was spent looking for a subject of conversation . The prob- lem was solved easily enough when Rambert discovered that horse - face was an ardent football - player . He , too , had been ...
... face nodded slow approval once more . Some time was spent looking for a subject of conversation . The prob- lem was solved easily enough when Rambert discovered that horse - face was an ardent football - player . He , too , had been ...
Page 259
... face . He was waiting for the fever to rise and already it was stirring somewhat in the depths of his being . When he opened his eyes , his gaze was misted . It brightened only when he saw Rieux bending over him , a tumbler in his hand ...
... face . He was waiting for the fever to rise and already it was stirring somewhat in the depths of his being . When he opened his eyes , his gaze was misted . It brightened only when he saw Rieux bending over him , a tumbler in his hand ...
Page 266
... face buried in the hollow of his shoulder were the face of which he had dreamed so often or , instead , a stranger's face . For the moment he wished to behave like all those others around him who believed , or made believe , that plague ...
... face buried in the hollow of his shoulder were the face of which he had dreamed so often or , instead , a stranger's face . For the moment he wished to behave like all those others around him who believed , or made believe , that plague ...
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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