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A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.
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The Plague, Albert Camus
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- Released
- 1960
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- Title
- The Plague
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Albert Camus
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 1960
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0140014721
- ISBN13
- 9780140014723
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, France, French Literature, Diseases, Nobel prize, Doctors, Existentialism, Plague, Algeria, Classicism, Epidemic, Allegory, Dangerous Virus
- First published
- 1947
- Original title
- La Peste
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.