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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... things and people I didn't know . I gathered that they'd been acquainted for some time and had even lived together for a ... thing , as all that sunlight beating down on my bare head made me feel half asleep . Just then Raymond said ...
... things and people I didn't know . I gathered that they'd been acquainted for some time and had even lived together for a ... thing , as all that sunlight beating down on my bare head made me feel half asleep . Just then Raymond said ...
Page 137
... thing that counted for me was the possibility of making a dash for it and defeating their bloodthirsty rite of a mad ... things consid- ered , even this luxury was forbidden me ; I was caught in the Fattrap irrevocably . Try as I might ...
... thing that counted for me was the possibility of making a dash for it and defeating their bloodthirsty rite of a mad ... things consid- ered , even this luxury was forbidden me ; I was caught in the Fattrap irrevocably . Try as I might ...
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... thing in the end ? The same thing for Salamano's wife and for Salamano's dog . That little robot woman was as " guilty " as the girl from Paris who had married Masson , or as Marie , who wanted me to marry her . What did it matter if ...
... thing in the end ? The same thing for Salamano's wife and for Salamano's dog . That little robot woman was as " guilty " as the girl from Paris who had married Masson , or as Marie , who wanted me to marry her . What did it matter if ...
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