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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... waited in the courtyard , under a plane tree . I sniffed the smells of the cool earth and found I wasn't sleepy any more . Then I thought of the other fellows in the office . At this hour they'd be getting up , preparing to go to work ...
... waited in the courtyard , under a plane tree . I sniffed the smells of the cool earth and found I wasn't sleepy any more . Then I thought of the other fellows in the office . At this hour they'd be getting up , preparing to go to work ...
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... waited till the evening to pass on the invitation . " It's like this , " he said . " I've been shadowed all the morning by some Arabs . One of them's the brother of that girl I had the row with . If you see him hanging round the house ...
... waited till the evening to pass on the invitation . " It's like this , " he said . " I've been shadowed all the morning by some Arabs . One of them's the brother of that girl I had the row with . If you see him hanging round the house ...
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... waited . My lawyer came to see me ; he was very talkative and showed more cordiality and confi- dence than ever before . He assured me that all would go well and I'd get off with a few years ' im- prisonment or transportation . I asked ...
... waited . My lawyer came to see me ; he was very talkative and showed more cordiality and confi- dence than ever before . He assured me that all would go well and I'd get off with a few years ' im- prisonment or transportation . I asked ...
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