I found myself turning to one book for a strange sort of solace - The Plague, known as La Peste in French, written in 1947 by French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus. Japanese booksellers ...

For two months in the summer of 1518, some 400 residents of the city of Strasbourg in modern-day France fell victim to a ...

Happily the covers for Vintage Books' Albert Camus collection are sublime on multiple ... The cover of The Plague, features dots, resembling spores – the plague propagating.

Albert Camus was born on November 7 ... Camus set his two most famous works, the novels The Stranger and The Plague, in Algeria, and his perception of existence, a joyful sensuality combined ...

The ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...