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 90
... light which glows , a small still flame , in the dark core of human suffering . And this light , too , illuminates the shadowed paths that lead towards deliverance . It reveals the will of God in action , unfailingly transforming evil ...
... light which glows , a small still flame , in the dark core of human suffering . And this light , too , illuminates the shadowed paths that lead towards deliverance . It reveals the will of God in action , unfailingly transforming evil ...
Page 138
... light a cigarette when it struck him that smoking might be frowned on here . At eight fifteen the organ began to play , very softly . Rambert entered . At first he could see nothing in the dim light of the aisle ; after a moment he made ...
... light a cigarette when it struck him that smoking might be frowned on here . At eight fifteen the organ began to play , very softly . Rambert entered . At first he could see nothing in the dim light of the aisle ; after a moment he made ...
Page 186
... light was glaucous , like that in an aquarium . Before they reached the glazed double door at the end of the passage , behind which shadowy forms could be seen moving , Tarrou took Rambert into a small room , all the wall space of which ...
... light was glaucous , like that in an aquarium . Before they reached the glazed double door at the end of the passage , behind which shadowy forms could be seen moving , Tarrou took Rambert into a small room , all the wall space of 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