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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... hour they'd be getting up , preparing to go to work ; for me this was always the worst hour of the day . I went on thinking , like this , for ten minutes or so ; then the sound of a bell inside the building_at- tracted my attention . I ...
... hour they'd be getting up , preparing to go to work ; for me this was always the worst hour of the day . I went on thinking , like this , for ten minutes or so ; then the sound of a bell inside the building_at- tracted my attention . I ...
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... hour of which I'd rather not speak- " the nameless hour , " I called it - when evening sounds were creeping up from all the floors of the prison in a sort of stealthy proces- sion . I went to the barred window and in the last rays ...
... hour of which I'd rather not speak- " the nameless hour , " I called it - when evening sounds were creeping up from all the floors of the prison in a sort of stealthy proces- sion . I went to the barred window and in the last rays ...
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... hour when - how long ago it seemed ! -I always felt so well content with life . Then , what awaited me was a night of easy , dreamless sleep . This was the same hour , but with a difference ; I was returning to a cell , and what awaited ...
... hour when - how long ago it seemed ! -I always felt so well content with life . Then , what awaited me was a night of easy , dreamless sleep . This was the same hour , but with a difference ; I was returning to a cell , and what awaited ...
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