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 58
... tion . Meanwhile , from all the outlying districts , spring was making its progress into the town . Thousands of roses wilted in the flower - venders ' baskets in the market - places and along the streets , and the air was heavy with ...
... tion . Meanwhile , from all the outlying districts , spring was making its progress into the town . Thousands of roses wilted in the flower - venders ' baskets in the market - places and along the streets , and the air was heavy with ...
Page 119
... tion . And the sole survivor was precisely the man whose job it was to wash the dead bodies , and who carried on through- out the epidemic . " " He pulled off his one - in - three chance , that's all . " Rieux had lowered his voice ...
... tion . And the sole survivor was precisely the man whose job it was to wash the dead bodies , and who carried on through- out the epidemic . " " He pulled off his one - in - three chance , that's all . " Rieux had lowered his voice ...
Page 172
... tion . His sensibility was getting out of hand . Kept under all the time , it had grown hard and brittle and seemed to snap completely now and then , leaving him the prey of his emo- tions . No resource was left him but to tighten the ...
... tion . His sensibility was getting out of hand . Kept under all the time , it had grown hard and brittle and seemed to snap completely now and then , leaving him the prey of his emo- tions . No resource was left him but to tighten the ...
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