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The plague

Albert Camus and Stuart Gilbert (tr.)

Camus, Albert (1913-1960); Stuart Gilbert (tr.);

The plague (French; Librarie Gallimard 1947)

H. Hamilton, 1948 / Modern Library Random House 278 pages

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus'
novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal
town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.