# The Plague

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- Book: [The Plague](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-plague) ([The Plague.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md))
- Authors: [Albert Camus](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-513-2
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2013-10-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.