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 193
... speak , an abstract way ; they had never had to witness over so long a period the death - throes of an innocent child . And just then the boy had a sudden spasm , as if something had bitten him in the stomach , and uttered a long ...
... speak , an abstract way ; they had never had to witness over so long a period the death - throes of an innocent child . And just then the boy had a sudden spasm , as if something had bitten him in the stomach , and uttered a long ...
Page 206
... speak above their tombs , and the divine message they bring to men rises from that charnel , to which , nevertheless , chil- dren have contributed their share . " When Rieux was preparing to leave the church a violent gust swept up the ...
... speak above their tombs , and the divine message they bring to men rises from that charnel , to which , nevertheless , chil- dren have contributed their share . " When Rieux was preparing to leave the church a violent gust swept up the ...
Page 272
... speak for all . But there was at least one of our townsfolk for whom Dr. Rieux could not speak , the man of whom Tarrou said one day to Rieux : “ His only real crime is that of having in his heart approved of something that killed off ...
... speak for all . But there was at least one of our townsfolk for whom Dr. Rieux could not speak , the man of whom Tarrou said one day to Rieux : “ His only real crime is that of having in his heart approved of something that killed off ...
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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