The Modern Classics Plague

<b><i>The Plague</i> is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage<br></b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' <i>Independent</i><br><br>'Magnificent'<i>The Times</i><br><br>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 <i>The Plague</i>, <i>The Just</i> and <i>The</i> <i>Fall</i>, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960.