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Albert Camus - The Plague

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A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
 
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Date of Review:  Nov 30, 2006
The Bottom Line: A masterpiece. Required reading.
Review: 'So the only thing for us to do was to go on waiting, and since after a too long waiting ones gives up waiting, the whole town lived as if it had no future.'

The small city of Oran is an ordinary city filled with people who possess...
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For the true intellectual and philosopher!!!

Date of Review:  May 4, 2004
The Bottom Line: DEFINITELY pick up this one up if you are even a little interested. You won't be disappointed
Review: Camus s work of genius combines multiple tenets of existential philosophy to create a masterpiece that is amazingly deep yet concise as well. The onset of the plague on a Algerian town by the name of Oran causes the townspeople to face the constant...
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This is a plague that you'll want to get!

Date of Review:  May 11, 2001
The Bottom Line: Great book- science-fiction that wonderfully tackles issues of medicine, religion, war, and more. A great read. (I mention specific characters who die of plague- don't say I didn't warn you!)
Review: Well, maybe not literally. But The Plague by Albert Camus is a great book. It was written just after World War II by Camus, and was written as a statement against how the Nazi's oppressed many Europeans during the war. That statement is not said...
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Authors Albert Camus
Fiction Genre Juvenile Fiction
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  New York Herald Tribune (1924-1966): "[W]ho will not see in it a parable of the condition of all mankind, especially during the recent war?"

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  Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (October 01, 1999)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.8 lbs.
ISBN: 9780808519843
 
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