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The Plague - Softcover

Camus, Albert

 
9780241980620: The Plague

Synopsis

On the Algerian coast in the 1940s Dr Bernard Rieux steps on a dead rat – one of many to die from a disease that soon passes to humans. When the town is quarantined some people turn to religion and others seek escape, leaving Rieux and a handful of others to treat those who are suffering. Young adult

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About the Author

French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Among his works, The Plague (1947), The Just (1949) The Fall (1956). He was killed in a road accident in 1960. His last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994.

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