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The Plague

Albert Camus

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1947
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 300

A North African city is sealed shut by plague, and a doctor and a handful of others keep working through the dying, not from heroism but because decency is a job.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
The Plague, Albert Camus

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