The Plague

The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.

• The Fall
• The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
• The Stranger
• The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
• A Happy Death
• Exile and the Kingdom
• Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
• Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
• Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics)
• A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)