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 36
... wanted to get a clear notion of what it means . Then at least you could add some familiar faces to the anonymous mass . But naturally that was impossible to put into practice ; moreover , what man knows ten thousand faces ? In any case ...
... wanted to get a clear notion of what it means . Then at least you could add some familiar faces to the anonymous mass . But naturally that was impossible to put into practice ; moreover , what man knows ten thousand faces ? In any case ...
Page 131
... wanted to do . Cottard explained that it wasn't really for a deal that he wanted to introduce his friend , M. Rambert , but only for what he called a " get - away . " Puffing at his cigarette , Garcia walked straight ahead . He asked ...
... wanted to do . Cottard explained that it wasn't really for a deal that he wanted to introduce his friend , M. Rambert , but only for what he called a " get - away . " Puffing at his cigarette , Garcia walked straight ahead . He asked ...
Page 252
... wanted . In noncom- mittal tones they informed him that they wanted “ some information , " and walked away , unhurrying , in the direction Cottard had taken . On his return home Tarrou wrote out an account of this peculiar incident ...
... wanted . In noncom- mittal tones they informed him that they wanted “ some information , " and walked away , unhurrying , in the direction Cottard had taken . On his return home Tarrou wrote out an account of this peculiar incident ...
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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