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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... playing the part of a historian . Naturally , a historian , even an amateur , always has data , personal or at ... played , he was enabled to learn their personal im- pressions from all those figuring in this chronicle ) ; and , lastly ...
... playing the part of a historian . Naturally , a historian , even an amateur , always has data , personal or at ... played , he was enabled to learn their personal im- pressions from all those figuring in this chronicle ) ; and , lastly ...
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... played the part of guide , the eyewitness who has " been through it , " and talked freely of the danger without mentioning ... playing in the squares they vouched for the vast joy of liberation . These ecstatic couples , locked together ...
... played the part of guide , the eyewitness who has " been through it , " and talked freely of the danger without mentioning ... playing in the squares they vouched for the vast joy of liberation . These ecstatic couples , locked together ...
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... Plays ( 30929 ) OATES , WHITNEY J. AND O'NEILL , Eugene , Jr. , ( Ed . ) : Seven Famous Greek Plays ( 30930 ) O'NEILL , EUGENE : The Later Plays ( 30991 ) PLATO : The Work of Plato ( 30971 ) POE , EDGAR ALLAN : The Selected Poetry and ...
... Plays ( 30929 ) OATES , WHITNEY J. AND O'NEILL , Eugene , Jr. , ( Ed . ) : Seven Famous Greek Plays ( 30930 ) O'NEILL , EUGENE : The Later Plays ( 30991 ) PLATO : The Work of Plato ( 30971 ) POE , EDGAR ALLAN : The Selected Poetry and ...
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