The Plague by Albert Camus

The Plague by Albert Camus

'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.

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. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.

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ISBN 13	9780141049236
ISBN 10	0141049235
Title	The Plague
Author	Albert Camus
Series	Penguin Essentials
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2010-07-01
Number of pages	304
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