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The Plague
Albert Camus
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Description for The Plague
Paperback.
'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian
The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241458877
SKU
9780241458877
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. ... Read more
Reviews for The Plague
A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice
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Magnificent
The Times
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Magnificent
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