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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... thought I should let you know . " I thanked him . So far as I knew , my mother , though not a professed atheist , had never given a thought to religion in her life . I entered the mortuary . It was a bright , spotlessly clean room ...
... thought I should let you know . " I thanked him . So far as I knew , my mother , though not a professed atheist , had never given a thought to religion in her life . I entered the mortuary . It was a bright , spotlessly clean room ...
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... thought of Marie especially . I was obsessed by thoughts of this woman or that , of all the ones I'd had , all the circumstances under which I'd loved them ; so much so that the cell grew crowded with their faces , ghosts of my old pas ...
... thought of Marie especially . I was obsessed by thoughts of this woman or that , of all the ones I'd had , all the circumstances under which I'd loved them ; so much so that the cell grew crowded with their faces , ghosts of my old pas ...
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... thought of him as " the patient " ) nine hundred and ninety times in a thousand . That he should know this was , of course , essential . For after taking much thought , calmly , I came to the conclusion that what was wrong about the ...
... thought of him as " the patient " ) nine hundred and ninety times in a thousand . That he should know this was , of course , essential . For after taking much thought , calmly , I came to the conclusion that what was wrong about the ...
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