The Plague

By Albert Camus

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Plague (1947) is a novel by Albert Camus about an epidemic in the Algerian city of Oran. When rats begin dying in the streets and people fall ill, the city is sealed off from the outside world. Dr Bernard Rieux, a journalist cut off from the woman he loves, a mysterious visitor and others respond in different ways as the plague spreads, in a story about suffering, solidarity and resistance.

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