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 75
... less and less to say , and failed to keep alive the feeling in his wife that she was loved . An overworked hus- band , poverty , the gradual loss of hope in a better future , silent evenings at home - what chance had any passion of ...
... less and less to say , and failed to keep alive the feeling in his wife that she was loved . An overworked hus- band , poverty , the gradual loss of hope in a better future , silent evenings at home - what chance had any passion of ...
Page 154
... less moral effect than that attaching to a military award , since in time of pestilence a decoration of this sort is too easily acquired . Thus nobody was satisfied . Another difficulty was that the jail administration could not follow ...
... less moral effect than that attaching to a military award , since in time of pestilence a decoration of this sort is too easily acquired . Thus nobody was satisfied . Another difficulty was that the jail administration could not follow ...
Page 241
... less and less on a speedy end of the epidemic . All the same , this new development was the talk of the town , and people began to nurse hopes none the less heartfelt for being unavowed . All else took a back place ; that daily there ...
... less and less on a speedy end of the epidemic . All the same , this new development was the talk of the town , and people began to nurse hopes none the less heartfelt for being unavowed . All else took a back place ; that daily there ...
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