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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... getting up , preparing to go to work ; for me this was always the worst hour of the day . I went on thinking , like this , for ten minutes or so ; then the sound of a bell inside the building at- tracted my attention . I could see ...
... getting up , preparing to go to work ; for me this was always the worst hour of the day . I went on thinking , like this , for ten minutes or so ; then the sound of a bell inside the building at- tracted my attention . I could see ...
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... getting out of bed . Obviously he had seen that it would mean my getting four days ' holiday straight off , and one couldn't expect him to like that . Still , for one thing , it wasn't my fault if Mother was buried yesterday and not ...
... getting out of bed . Obviously he had seen that it would mean my getting four days ' holiday straight off , and one couldn't expect him to like that . Still , for one thing , it wasn't my fault if Mother was buried yesterday and not ...
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... getting so tight you can't stand steady . Why , you're shaking all over ! " " I'm not tight , " Raymond explained . " Only when I see you standing there and looking at me , I can't help trembling . That's only natural . " Then he closed ...
... getting so tight you can't stand steady . Why , you're shaking all over ! " " I'm not tight , " Raymond explained . " Only when I see you standing there and looking at me , I can't help trembling . That's only natural . " Then he closed ...
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