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 49
... patients with immediate treatment and ensure the maximum prospect of recovery . Some supplementary regulations ... patient to consult the sanitary inspector and strictly to fol- low his advice . Dr. Rieux swung round brusquely from ...
... patients with immediate treatment and ensure the maximum prospect of recovery . Some supplementary regulations ... patient to consult the sanitary inspector and strictly to fol- low his advice . Dr. Rieux swung round brusquely from ...
Page 81
... patients on arrival . The floor had been excavated and replaced by a shallow lake of water and cresylic acid , in the center of which was a sort of island made of bricks . The patient was carried to the island , rapidly undressed , and ...
... patients on arrival . The floor had been excavated and replaced by a shallow lake of water and cresylic acid , in the center of which was a sort of island made of bricks . The patient was carried to the island , rapidly undressed , and ...
Page 82
... patient was removed . Then Rieux , too , could leave . In the early days he had merely telephoned , then rushed off to see other patients , without waiting for the ambulance . But no sooner was he gone than the family locked and barred ...
... patient was removed . Then Rieux , too , could leave . In the early days he had merely telephoned , then rushed off to see other patients , without waiting for the ambulance . But no sooner was he gone than the family locked and barred ...
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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