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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... feeling . Cottard sat down and replied rather grumpily that he was feeling tolerably well , adding that he'd feel still better if only he could be sure of being left in peace . Rieux remarked that one couldn't always be alone . " That's ...
... feeling . Cottard sat down and replied rather grumpily that he was feeling tolerably well , adding that he'd feel still better if only he could be sure of being left in peace . Rieux remarked that one couldn't always be alone . " That's ...
Page 178
... feels drawn to , it's easy to understand this reaction . One can have fellow - feelings toward people who are ... feeling of uncertainty that never leaves them . It comes to this : like all of us who have not yet died of plague he ...
... feels drawn to , it's easy to understand this reaction . One can have fellow - feelings toward people who are ... feeling of uncertainty that never leaves them . It comes to this : like all of us who have not yet died of plague he ...
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... feeling the pinch thought still more nostalgically of towns and villages in the near - by countryside , where bread was cheap and life without restrictions . Indeed , they had a natural if illogical feeling that they should have been ...
... feeling the pinch thought still more nostalgically of towns and villages in the near - by countryside , where bread was cheap and life without restrictions . Indeed , they had a natural if illogical feeling that they should have been ...
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