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 85
... heart of hearts they were far from recognizing the enormity of what had come on them , they couldn't help feeling , for obvious reasons , that decidedly something had changed . Nevertheless , many continued hoping that the epi- demic ...
... heart of hearts they were far from recognizing the enormity of what had come on them , they couldn't help feeling , for obvious reasons , that decidedly something had changed . Nevertheless , many continued hoping that the epi- demic ...
Page 172
... heart protectively . For he knew this was the only way of carrying on . In any case , he had few illusions left , and fatigue was robbing him of even these remaining few . He knew that , over a period whose end he could not glimpse ...
... heart protectively . For he knew this was the only way of carrying on . In any case , he had few illusions left , and fatigue was robbing him of even these remaining few . He knew that , over a period whose end he could not glimpse ...
Page 272
... heart , he has deliberately taken the victims ' side and tried to share with his fellow citizens the only certitudes they had in common - love , exile , and suffering . Thus he can truly say there was not one of their anxieties in which ...
... heart , he has deliberately taken the victims ' side and tried to share with his fellow citizens the only certitudes they had in common - love , exile , and suffering . Thus he can truly say there was not one of their anxieties in which ...
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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