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 63
... passed side by side , or pas- sionate yearnings , soon declined to the exchange of such trite formulas as : " Am well . Always thinking of you . Love . " Some few of us , however , persisted in writing letters and gave much time to ...
... passed side by side , or pas- sionate yearnings , soon declined to the exchange of such trite formulas as : " Am well . Always thinking of you . Love . " Some few of us , however , persisted in writing letters and gave much time to ...
Page 72
... passed and the steady rise in the death - rate could not be ignored that public opinion became alive to the truth ... passing . In short , they kept up appearances . However , toward the end of the month , about the time of the Week of ...
... passed and the steady rise in the death - rate could not be ignored that public opinion became alive to the truth ... passing . In short , they kept up appearances . However , toward the end of the month , about the time of the Week of ...
Page 193
... passed , there came a lull , and he relaxed a little ; the fever seemed to recede , leaving him gasping for breath on a dank , pestilential shore , lost in a languor that already looked like death . When for the third time the fiery ...
... passed , there came a lull , and he relaxed a little ; the fever seemed to recede , leaving him gasping for breath on a dank , pestilential shore , lost in a languor that already looked like death . When for the third time the fiery ...
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