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 77
... hope of a quick decision , as the authorities were taking a very serious view of the situation . " But , confound it , " Rambert exclaimed , " I don't belong here ! " " Quite so . Anyhow , let's hope the epidemic will soon be over ...
... hope of a quick decision , as the authorities were taking a very serious view of the situation . " But , confound it , " Rambert exclaimed , " I don't belong here ! " " Quite so . Anyhow , let's hope the epidemic will soon be over ...
Page 91
... hope . Well , Mathieu Marais was blind ! Never more intensely than today had he , Father Paneloux , felt the immanence of divine suc- cor and Christian hope granted to all alike . He hoped against hope that , despite all the horrors of ...
... hope . Well , Mathieu Marais was blind ! Never more intensely than today had he , Father Paneloux , felt the immanence of divine suc- cor and Christian hope granted to all alike . He hoped against hope that , despite all the horrors of ...
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... hope in any form . Thus even when the plague had run its course , they went on living by its standards . They were , in short , behind the times . In the case of others chiefly those who had been living until now in forced separation ...
... hope in any form . Thus even when the plague had run its course , they went on living by its standards . They were , in short , behind the times . In the case of others chiefly those who had been living until now in forced separation ...
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