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The Plague

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Plague
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Albert Camus
SeriesPenguin Essentials
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141049236
ClassificationsDewey:843.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 1 July 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

An eye-catching new package for this classic novel 'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers. The authorities quarantine the town. Cut off, the terrified townspeople must face this horror alone. Some resign themselves to death or the whims of fate. Others seek someone to blame or dream of revenge. One is determined to escape. But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror. A monstrous evil has entered their lives but they will never surrender to it. They will resist the plague.

Author Biography

Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960.