The Plague by Albert Camus [1948 HARDCOVER] • The Modern Library #109

The Plague by Albert Camus

FIRST MODERN LIBRARY PRINTING [1948] THE MODERN LIBRARY

Small hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Dust jacket shows some wear and tear to egdes, and a spot stain on rear;  overall bright and in tact, housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book has a few minor stains to green cloth boards.  Pages are white, unmarked and read beautifully. 

A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion