![]() ![]() Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960. His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The Plague Albert Camus (author), Robin Buss (translator) Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London (2020) ISBN 10: 0241458870 ISBN 13: 9780241458877 New paperback Quantity: > 20 Seller: Blackwells (Oxford, OX, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description paperback. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist. The Plague - Penguin Classics Albert Camus, Robin Buss Paperback () 10.91 Add to basket Includes delivery to USA 10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 7 days Other formats/editions Paperback () - Reprint RRP 12.50 10. 'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' IndependentĪlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. ![]() 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.Īn 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. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. ![]() The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. ![]() The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage ![]()
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