About the Book: The Plague
"The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story
from the point of view of an unknown narrator of a plague sweeping the French
Algerian city of Oran. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen
through the authors distinctive absurdist point of view.
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