The Plague

Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider , The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall . After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man , appeared posthumously.>

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Albert Camus

Product details

• Authors: Albert Camus
• Assisted by: Robin Buss (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.07.2026
• EAN: 9780241813010
• ISBN: 978-0-241-81301-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 204 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Hardbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Algeria, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general