A new Great Camus A-format collection, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the author's deathNew covers created by David Pearson, the acclaimed designer responsible for the Great Ideas and Great Orwell seriesCamus is one of the most valuable authors in PMC, with
The Outsider selling 20k copies a year
The Plague, Camus' interpretation of the Nazi occupation of France, is considered to be one of his greatest novelsAlbert 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.A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardiceMagnificent
'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian
The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage
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.
'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' Independent
'Magnificent' The Times
