An edition of La Peste (1942)

La peste

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An edition of La Peste (1942)

La peste

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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
Gallimard
Language
French
Pages
337

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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
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1972, Vintage Books
in English
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
/1970, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1968, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
/1967, Modern Library
in English
Cover of: The Plague
The Plague
1966, Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton
in English
Cover of: La peste
La peste
1963, Gallimard
in French
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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Edition Notes

Author's name at head of title.

"L'édition originale de 'La Peste' a été tirée à deux mille trois cent cinquante-cinq exemplaires et comprend : [15 ...]; [35 ...], [10 ...]; [215 ...]; et deux mille quatre-vingts exemplaires sur Alfa des Papeteries Navarre reliés d'après la maquette de Mario Prassinos, dont : deux mille exemplaires numérotés de l à 2,000 et quatre-vingts hors commerce numérotés de 2,001 à 2,080, - ces exemplaires portant la mention : Exemplaire sur Alfa Navarre."--T.p. verso.

"Achevé d'imprimer le 24 mai 1947 par Emmanuel Grevin et fils a Lagny-sur-Marne ..."--P. [339].

"Tirage réservé au Cercle du Livre de France, New-York."

"Nrf."--Front and spine of paper wrapper.

In paper wrapper, printed in red and black.

Published in
[Paris]
Copyright Date
1947

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843.91
Library of Congress
PQ2605.A3734 P4

The Physical Object

Pagination
337 p. ;
Number of pages
337

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24950495M
Internet Archive
lapestecamu00camu
LCCN
47029751
OCLC/WorldCat
342736

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First Sentence

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

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