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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... sort of chronicle of those strange early days we all lived through . But an unusual type of chronicle , since the writer seems to make a point of un- derstatement , and at first sight we might almost imagine that Tarrou had a habit of ...
... sort of chronicle of those strange early days we all lived through . But an unusual type of chronicle , since the writer seems to make a point of un- derstatement , and at first sight we might almost imagine that Tarrou had a habit of ...
Page 153
... sort of community , as is proved by the fact that in our town jail the guards died of plague in the same proportion as the prisoners . The plague was no respecter of persons and under its despotic rule everyone , from the warden down to ...
... sort of community , as is proved by the fact that in our town jail the guards died of plague in the same proportion as the prisoners . The plague was no respecter of persons and under its despotic rule everyone , from the warden down to ...
Page 154
... sort is too easily acquired . Thus nobody was satisfied . Another difficulty was that the jail administration could not follow the procedure adopted by the religious and , in a less degree , the military authorities . The monks in the ...
... sort is too easily acquired . Thus nobody was satisfied . Another difficulty was that the jail administration could not follow the procedure adopted by the religious and , in a less degree , the military authorities . The monks in the ...
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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