The Plague / Albert Camus

The classic tale that can be read as an allegory of the French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine, each responding in their own way to the lethal bacillus: 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, Camus's novel is a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.