The Plague“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. |
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... seen in public and at the beginning of spring was seen on one or other of the beaches almost every day ; obviously he was fond of 23 PART ONE.
... seen in public and at the beginning of spring was seen on one or other of the beaches almost every day ; obviously he was fond of 23 PART ONE.
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... seen with his own eyes . And what he'd seen was buboes , and high fever accompanied by delirium , ending fatally within forty - eight hours . Could Dr. Richard take the responsibility of declaring that the epidemic would die out without ...
... seen with his own eyes . And what he'd seen was buboes , and high fever accompanied by delirium , ending fatally within forty - eight hours . Could Dr. Richard take the responsibility of declaring that the epidemic would die out without ...
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... seen it often seated at our tables or at the bedsides of those we loved . We had seen it walking at our side , or waiting for our coming at the places where we worked . Thus we were now , perhaps , better able to comprehend what it was ...
... seen it often seated at our tables or at the bedsides of those we loved . We had seen it walking at our side , or waiting for our coming at the places where we worked . Thus we were now , perhaps , better able to comprehend what it was ...
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