The Plague
by Albert Camus | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0394712587 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0394712587 Global Overview for this book
Registered by MiniCityMedia on 6/4/2008
3 journalers for this copy...
Picked up from Tara at MCM, will bring to BC meeting at Starbucks on Lake Boone Trail on Tuesday, June 10th, at 7pm.
I picked up this book yesterday at Starbucks in the Lake Boone Shopping Center in Raleigh. It's cool that there's still BC meetings going on. :-)
c. 1948 -- 287 pages -- Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert -- Book Lust 100 Good Reads -- #127 on the Lifetime Reading Plan -- on my daughter's HS reading list
Back Cover: The Plague stands alongside The Stranger among the great novels of the 20th century. Camus' first book to be published after World War II, it is imbued with the intense concern for the human being that marks all of his work. The story takes place in the Algerian port of Oran, where a ravaging epidemic of bubonic plague -- which symbolically suggests other spiritual and political plagues -- has thrown the city into a harrowing agony. Quarantined from the outside world, Oran becomes a prison of death and disease, to which each character reacts in his own way; the efforts of those seeking to alleviate the suffering become the focus of Camus' human and humane passion.
c. 1948 -- 287 pages -- Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert -- Book Lust 100 Good Reads -- #127 on the Lifetime Reading Plan -- on my daughter's HS reading list
Back Cover: The Plague stands alongside The Stranger among the great novels of the 20th century. Camus' first book to be published after World War II, it is imbued with the intense concern for the human being that marks all of his work. The story takes place in the Algerian port of Oran, where a ravaging epidemic of bubonic plague -- which symbolically suggests other spiritual and political plagues -- has thrown the city into a harrowing agony. Quarantined from the outside world, Oran becomes a prison of death and disease, to which each character reacts in his own way; the efforts of those seeking to alleviate the suffering become the focus of Camus' human and humane passion.
