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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... swim back to the beach and slump down on the sand under the sun . In the distance he looked enormous , like a stranded whale . Then Marie proposed that we should swim tandem . She went ahead and I put my arms round her waist , from ...
... swim back to the beach and slump down on the sand under the sun . In the distance he looked enormous , like a stranded whale . Then Marie proposed that we should swim tandem . She went ahead and I put my arms round her waist , from ...
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... swim , the fight , then the beach again , and the five shots I'd fired . But I went over it all again , and after each phrase he nodded . “ Quite so , quite so . " When I described the body lying on the sand , he nodded more ...
... swim , the fight , then the beach again , and the five shots I'd fired . But I went over it all again , and after each phrase he nodded . “ Quite so , quite so . " When I described the body lying on the sand , he nodded more ...
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... swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth . It was in the same order of things . I was going on in the same vein , when he cut in with a question . How did I picture the life after the grave ? I fairly bawled out at him : " A ...
... swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth . It was in the same order of things . I was going on in the same vein , when he cut in with a question . How did I picture the life after the grave ? I fairly bawled out at him : " A ...
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