The Plague

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Albert Camus: The Plague (2013, Penguin Books Ltd)

272 pages

English language

Published Oct. 31, 2013 by Penguin Books Ltd.

ISBN:
978-0-14-118513-2
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The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Plague
  • Epidemics
  • Peste bubónica
  • FICTION / Classics
  • FICTION / Psychological
  • FICTION / Literary
  • Novela
  • Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Medicine in Literature
  • French fiction
  • Psychological
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Fiction, medical
  • France, fiction
  • Drama (dramatic works by one author)