The Plague Paperback / softback
by Albert Camus
Edited by Professor Tony Judt
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe 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. 'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' Independent'Magnificent'The TimesAlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913.
He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist.
He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer.
His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960.
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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/12/2002
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- ISBN:9780141185132
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/12/2002
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- ISBN:9780141185132
