"Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature." "The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The plague begins...

An introduction to the history and treatment of plague.

The Plague (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Albert Camus Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night...

At first it was the dead rats. They started dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The citizenry reacts in disbelief when the diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city. Inspired by Albert Camus' classic 1948 novel, Kevin Chong's The Plague follows Dr. Bernard Rieux's attempts to fight...

A worldwide plague kills almost a billion people across the globe in an instant. This sets off a chain of events that was foretold thousands of years ago, but there are very few who draw the connection between the prophecies of the past and the events of the day. The ones who do realize that the next seven years are going to be the hardest years of their lives. This is their story.

The story unfolds in the depths of a writer's struggle, where the looming specter of writer's block threatens to rob him of his last chance at creating a masterpiece. As he grapples with his own frustrations and the relentless pressure of time, a dark muse emerges, urging him to tell a tale unlike any he has written before.Haunted by personal demons and a past filled with loss and longing, the writer embarks on a journey into the darkest corners of...

Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.