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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... soon after we were round the bend ; then began to lose ground again . He took another short cut and met us again farther on ; in fact , this hap- pened several times during the next half - hour . But soon I lost interest in his ...
... soon after we were round the bend ; then began to lose ground again . He took another short cut and met us again farther on ; in fact , this hap- pened several times during the next half - hour . But soon I lost interest in his ...
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... soon after Marie's first and only visit . From the day when I got her letter tell- ing me they wouldn't let her come to see me any more , because she wasn't my wife - it was from that day that I realized that this cell was my last home ...
... soon after Marie's first and only visit . From the day when I got her letter tell- ing me they wouldn't let her come to see me any more , because she wasn't my wife - it was from that day that I realized that this cell was my last home ...
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... me out . V I HAVE just refused , for the third time , to see the prison chaplain . I have nothing to say to him , don't feel like talking - and shall be seeing him quite soon Eating mty's He so contenen Asan escriue ? enough , 135.
... me out . V I HAVE just refused , for the third time , to see the prison chaplain . I have nothing to say to him , don't feel like talking - and shall be seeing him quite soon Eating mty's He so contenen Asan escriue ? enough , 135.
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