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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... Algiers . With the two- o'clock bus I should get there well before night- fall . Then I can spend the night there , keeping the usual vigil beside the body , and be back here by tomorrow evening . I have fixed up with my em- ployer for ...
... Algiers . With the two- o'clock bus I should get there well before night- fall . Then I can spend the night there , keeping the usual vigil beside the body , and be back here by tomorrow evening . I have fixed up with my em- ployer for ...
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... Algiers , and I pictured myself going straight to bed and sleeping twelve hours at a stretch . II ON WAKING I understood why my employer had looked rather cross when I asked for my two days off ; it's a Saturday today . I hadn't thought ...
... Algiers , and I pictured myself going straight to bed and sleeping twelve hours at a stretch . II ON WAKING I understood why my employer had looked rather cross when I asked for my two days off ; it's a Saturday today . I hadn't thought ...
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... , but she had hardly a word for him . Now and again she would catch my eye and smile . We alighted just outside Algiers . The beach is not far from the bus stop ; one has only to cross a patch of highland , a sort of plateau , which 6 I.
... , but she had hardly a word for him . Now and again she would catch my eye and smile . We alighted just outside Algiers . The beach is not far from the bus stop ; one has only to cross a patch of highland , a sort of plateau , which 6 I.
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