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 37
... pictures of the plague : Athens , a charnel - house reeking to heaven and deserted even by the birds ; Chinese towns ... picture rose before him of the red glow of the pyres mir- rored on a wine - dark , slumbrous sea , battling torches ...
... pictures of the plague : Athens , a charnel - house reeking to heaven and deserted even by the birds ; Chinese towns ... picture rose before him of the red glow of the pyres mir- rored on a wine - dark , slumbrous sea , battling torches ...
Page 224
... picture I carried away with me of that day's proceedings was a picture of the criminal . I have little doubt he was guilty - of what crime is no great matter . That little man of about thirty , with sparse , sandy hair , seemed so eager ...
... picture I carried away with me of that day's proceedings was a picture of the criminal . I have little doubt he was guilty - of what crime is no great matter . That little man of about thirty , with sparse , sandy hair , seemed so eager ...
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... picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering- wheel of his car when driving , or else the picture of that stalwart body , now lying motionless . Knowing meant that : a living ...
... picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering- wheel of his car when driving , or else the picture of that stalwart body , now lying motionless . Knowing meant that : a living ...
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