The Plague Albert Camus

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679720218

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The Plague by Albert Camus Pdf

“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307827784

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Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus Pdf

Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141395210

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The Plague by Albert Camus Pdf

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Author : Emily Bronte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593117224

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Pdf

BE CLASSIC with Wuthering Heights introduced by bestselling author S.E. Hinton. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discoveres the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: how Heathcliff, an orphan, was raised by Mr. Earnshaw as one of his own children. Lockwood learns of the intense and passionate romance between Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff's bitterness and revenge are visited upon by the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. Heathcliff's terrible vengeance ruins them all - but still his love for Cathy will not die...

Author : Kevin Chong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551527189

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The Plague by Kevin Chong Pdf

A modern retelling of the Camus classic that posits its story of infectious disease and quarantine in our contemporary age of social justice and rising inequity.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593082096

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The Plague by Albert Camus Pdf

“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have.” —Los Angeles Review of Books The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel ("A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." —The Washington Post) to a new generation of readers. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus's ever-resonant tale. Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague. This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175583

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Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon Pdf

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother’s whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting darkness and cold of an endless winter, Frank will pursue abjection until at last there is nowhere to go. Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as “one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right.” In a study of the criminal mind that is comparable to Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, Simenon maps a no man’s land of the spirit in which human nature is driven to destruction—and redemption, perhaps, as well—by forces beyond its control.

Author : Lecrae Moore
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781433689116

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Unashamed by Lecrae Moore Pdf

If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection. Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity—childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Along the way, Lecrae attained an unwavering faith in Jesus and began looking to God for affirmation. Now as a chart-topping industry anomaly, he has learned to ignore the haters and make peace with his craft. The rap artist holds nothing back as he divulges the most sensitive details of his life, answers his critics, shares intimate handwritten journal entries, and powerfully models how to be a Christian in a secular age. This is the story of one man's journey to faith and freedom. *Cover/Interior design by Alex Medina, photography by Mary Caroline Mann

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015002627983

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The Fall, & Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus Pdf

Author : Michael P. Hengartner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030825874

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Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription by Michael P. Hengartner Pdf

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific evidence on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants in depression. The book is not only concerned with the conflicting views as to whether antidepressants are useful or ineffective in various forms of depression, but also aims at detailing how flaws in the conduct and reporting of antidepressant trials have led to an overestimation of benefits and underestimation of harms. The transformation of the diagnostic concept of depression from a rare but serious disorder to an over-inclusive, highly prevalent but predominantly mild and self-limiting disorder is central to the books argument. It maintains that biological reductionism in psychiatry and pharmaceutical marketing reframed depression as a brain disorder, corroborating the overemphasis on drug treatment in both research and practice. Finally, the author goes on to explore how pharmaceutical companies have distorted the scientific literature on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants and how patient advocacy groups, leading academics, and medical organisations with pervasive financial ties to the industry helped to promote systematically biased benefit-harm evaluations, affecting public attitudes towards antidepressants as well as medical education, training, and practice.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014494481

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The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing Pdf

"Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life." --

Author : George Kalogeris
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807175996

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Winthropos by George Kalogeris Pdf

Winthropos, the title of George Kalogeris’s new poetry collection, comes from the “Greek-ified” name his father, an immigrant from Greece, gave to the blue-collar New England town where the family lived. Following in the spirit of his acclaimed Guide to Greece, Kalogeris conjures Winthrop, Massachusetts, as a central locus of lyric and elegiac memory. While the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.

Author : Catherine Camus,Marcelle Mahasela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Authors, Algerian
ISBN : 3283011885

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Albert Camus by Catherine Camus,Marcelle Mahasela Pdf

A biography in text and pictures of the highly influential, iconic writer, from his daughter "My children and grandchildren never got to know him. I wanted to go through all the photos for their sake. To rediscover his laugh, his lack of pretension, his generosity, to meet this highly observant, warm-hearted person once more, the man who steered me along the path of life. To show, as Severine Gaspari once wrote, that Albert Camus was in essence a 'person among people, who in the midst of them all, strove to become genuine.'" --Catherine Camus Using selected texts, photographs, and previously unpublished documents, Catherine Camus skillfully and easily takes readers through the fascinating life and work of her father, Albert Camus, who, in his defense of the individual, also saw himself as the voice of the downtrodden. The winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Albert Camus died suddenly and tragically in 1960. He was only 46. There are rumors to this day that the Russian KGB was behind the car crash. Writer, journalist, philosopher, playwright, and producer, he was a shining defender of freedom, whose art and person were dedicated to serving the dignity in humanity. In his tireless struggle against all forms of repression, he was a ceaseless critic of humanity's hubris; the same struggle can still be felt today.

Author : David Zigmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913192733

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Humanity's Conundrum by David Zigmond Pdf

Is evolution progress? Why is Homo Sapiens both gifted with such reason, and yet cursed with such turbulent restlessness? How may we calm our anomalous nature? Here is an alternative psychology, and another way of viewing our history - both personal and as a species.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9782806270160

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The Plague by Albert Camus (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Plague with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Plague by Albert Camus, an existentialist classic in which he continues to question the absurdity of life and applies the notion of rebellion. It is the story of a plague epidemic in the city of Oran in the 1940’s and tells of the individual destinies of some of its inhabitants, who all react to the situation in a different way. The novel is believed to be based on the cholera epidemic that killed a large portion of Oran's population, or perhaps even the plague of the 16th and 17th centuries. Camus was a French author who was known for his thought-provoking novels and essays that often discussed fate, religion and philosophy, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 for his incredible works. Find out everything you need to know about The Plague in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!