The Plague

Example Sentences

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In a period of disease and lockdowns lasting for weeks, booksellers report the seeming irony that Albert Camus’ The Plague and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude have seen renewed demand.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2020

But Camus’s The Plague had gone the way of dried pasta and toilet roll; there was just a desolate gap on the shelves where the copies had once been.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2020

Another novel that is selling well is The Plague by French author Albert Camus.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2020

The Plague itself did not destroy the feudal system.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Played this game called The Plague, which I did not participate in, by the way!

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio