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A parable of the highest order, The Plague tells the story of a terrible disease that descends upon Oran, Algiers, in a year unknown. After rats crawl from the sewer to die in the streets, people soon begin perishing from terrible afflictions. How the main characters in the book--a journalist, a doctor & a priest--face humanity in the wake of the plague presents one of the book's many lessons. The book deserves to be read on several levels, because the pandemic represents any of a number of worldwide catastrophes--both past & future--& the difficult choices everyone must make to survive them.
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The plague, Albert Camus
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- Released
- 1995
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- Title
- The plague
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Albert Camus
- Publisher
- Modern library
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 278
- ISBN10
- 0075536498
- ISBN13
- 9780075536499
- 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 parable of the highest order, The Plague tells the story of a terrible disease that descends upon Oran, Algiers, in a year unknown. After rats crawl from the sewer to die in the streets, people soon begin perishing from terrible afflictions. How the main characters in the book--a journalist, a doctor & a priest--face humanity in the wake of the plague presents one of the book's many lessons. The book deserves to be read on several levels, because the pandemic represents any of a number of worldwide catastrophes--both past & future--& the difficult choices everyone must make to survive them.