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The Plague

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An edition of La Peste (1942)

The Plague

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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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Publisher
Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton
Language
English
Pages
251

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Subjects

Fiction, Plague, Plague in literature, Epidemics, Peste bubónica, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Literary, 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), Romance literature, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, classics, Determination (Personality trait), Peste, Romans, nouvelles, Romance Frances, Novela

Places

Oran (Algeria), Algeria

Times

1940s

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Cover of: La peste
La peste
1992, Gallimard
in French
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Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1972, Vintage Books
in English
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The Plague
/1970, Penguin Books
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The Plague
1968, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
/1967, Modern Library
in English
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Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1966, Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton
in English
Cover of: Die Pest
Die Pest
1960, Karl Rauch Verlag
in German
Cover of: La Peste
La Peste
1957, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1948, Modern Library
in English
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1947, The Modern Library
in English

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Published in
[Middlesex, Eng.]
Series
Penguin modern classics

Classifications

Library of Congress
PQ2605 A3734 P413 1966

The Physical Object

Pagination
251p.
Number of pages
251

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21214329M
Internet Archive
plague0000albe_q2p7

First Sentence

"The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-at Oran."

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