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The plague

Camus, AlbertJudt, Professor Tony(Edited by)Buss, Robin(Translated by)
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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 story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

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Penguin Classics
0141185139 / 9780141185132
Paperback / softback
843.912
05/12/2002
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
237 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2001.