The plague
"The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The plague begins with a series of unheeded warnings: panic, isolation, and claustrophobia soon follow, as the townspeople are force into quarantine. Eac...
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| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2021.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The plague begins with a series of unheeded warnings: panic, isolation, and claustrophobia soon follow, as the townspeople are force into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror."-- "The first new American translation in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel to a new generation of readers."-- |
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| Item Description: | "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso "The class novel in a new translation by Laura Marris. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"--Dust jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 337 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780593082096 0593082095 9780593318669 0593318668 |
| Author Notes: | Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960. (Bowker Author Biography) |
