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The Plague

The Plague

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Written by Albert CamusAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Albert Camus

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
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  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: May 7, 1991
  • Price: $14.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-72021-8 (0-679-72021-9)
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In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness and compassion. The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.