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 196
... voice behind him . " Why was there that anger in your voice just now ? What we'd been seeing was as un- bearable to me as it was to you . " Rieux turned toward Paneloux . " I know . I'm sorry . But weariness is a kind of madness . And ...
... voice behind him . " Why was there that anger in your voice just now ? What we'd been seeing was as un- bearable to me as it was to you . " Rieux turned toward Paneloux . " I know . I'm sorry . But weariness is a kind of madness . And ...
Page 204
... voice , making as if to put himself in his hearers ' place and ask what then was the proper course to follow . He made no doubt that the ugly word " fatalism " would be applied to what he said . Well , he would not boggle at the word ...
... voice , making as if to put himself in his hearers ' place and ask what then was the proper course to follow . He made no doubt that the ugly word " fatalism " would be applied to what he said . Well , he would not boggle at the word ...
Page 239
... voice : " Burn it ! " The doctor hesitated , but Grand repeated his injunction in so violent a tone and with such agony in his voice that Rieux walked across to the fireplace and dropped the sheets on the dying fire . It blazed up , and ...
... voice : " Burn it ! " The doctor hesitated , but Grand repeated his injunction in so violent a tone and with such agony in his voice that Rieux walked across to the fireplace and dropped the sheets on the dying fire . It blazed up , and ...
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