The StrangerA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character ... |
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... night went by . I can recall only one moment ; I had opened my eyes and I saw the old men sleeping hunched up on their chairs , with one exception . Resting his chin on his hands clasped round his stick , he was staring hard at me , as ...
... night went by . I can recall only one moment ; I had opened my eyes and I saw the old men sleeping hunched up on their chairs , with one exception . Resting his chin on his hands clasped round his stick , he was staring hard at me , as ...
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... night began to fall , and one of them explained to me how to lay out my sleeping mat . By rolling up one end one makes a sort of bolster . All night I felt bugs crawling over my face . A Some days later I was put by myself in 89 II ...
... night began to fall , and one of them explained to me how to lay out my sleeping mat . By rolling up one end one makes a sort of bolster . All night I felt bugs crawling over my face . A Some days later I was put by myself in 89 II ...
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... night of easy , dreamless sleep . This was the same hour , but with a difference ; I was returning to a cell , and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day . And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the ...
... night of easy , dreamless sleep . This was the same hour , but with a difference ; I was returning to a cell , and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day . And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the ...
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