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 34
... fact , like our fellow citizens , Rieux was caught off his guard , and we should understand his hesitations in the light of this fact ; and similarly understand how he was torn be- tween conflicting fears and confidence . When a war ...
... fact , like our fellow citizens , Rieux was caught off his guard , and we should understand his hesitations in the light of this fact ; and similarly understand how he was torn be- tween conflicting fears and confidence . When a war ...
Page 92
... fact that they had been sentenced , for an unknown crime , to an indeterminate period of punishment . And while a good many people adapted themselves to confinement and carried on their humdrum lives as before , there were others who ...
... fact that they had been sentenced , for an unknown crime , to an indeterminate period of punishment . And while a good many people adapted themselves to confinement and carried on their humdrum lives as before , there were others who ...
Page 230
... fact one doesn't come across many of them , and anyhow it must be a hard vocation . That's why I decided to take , in every predicament , the victims ' side , so as to reduce the damage done . Among them I can at least try to discover ...
... fact one doesn't come across many of them , and anyhow it must be a hard vocation . That's why I decided to take , in every predicament , the victims ' side , so as to reduce the damage done . Among them I can at least try to discover ...
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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