THE PLAGUE: Novel, by Albert Camus

THE PLAGUE

The plague, is built like a tragedy in five acts. This novel has sold more than 5 million copies. By reading, you will find that your doctor Rieux discovered the corpse of a rat on his landing, but a few days later, a news agency announces that more than six thousand rats were collected that day. The epidemic spreads, deaths multiply, the inhabitants of Oran have to live with the isolation, abandoning himself to worldly pleasures. You’ll also discover the life of Tarrou, stranger to the city, a man holding in his notebooks his chronicle of the epidemic.

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