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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... moved un- certainly , and its fur was sopping wet . The animal stopped and seemed to be trying to get its balance , moved forward again toward the doctor , halted again , then spun round on itself with a little squeal and fell on its ...
... moved un- certainly , and its fur was sopping wet . The animal stopped and seemed to be trying to get its balance , moved forward again toward the doctor , halted again , then spun round on itself with a little squeal and fell on its ...
Page 154
... moved out of barracks and billeted in schools or public buildings . Thus the disease , which apparently had forced on us the solidarity of a beleaguered town , disrupted at the same time long - established communities and sent men out ...
... moved out of barracks and billeted in schools or public buildings . Thus the disease , which apparently had forced on us the solidarity of a beleaguered town , disrupted at the same time long - established communities and sent men out ...
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... moved his arms . " I'm in for it ! " he thought . And his only reaction - an absurd one , as he frankly admitted to Rieux - had been to start running to the upper town and when he reached a small square , from which if not the sea , a ...
... moved his arms . " I'm in for it ! " he thought . And his only reaction - an absurd one , as he frankly admitted to Rieux - had been to start running to the upper town and when he reached a small square , from which if not the sea , a ...
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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