Title: The Plague
Original: The Plague
Category: Novel
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2020
Pgs: 253
Weight: 0.201 kg
ISBN: 978-0-141-18513-2
This book is in English
About the book
The 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.