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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... staring hard at me , as if he had been waiting for me to wake . Then I fell asleep again . I woke up after a bit , because the ache in my legs had developed into a sort of cramp . There was a glimmer of dawn above the sky- light . A ...
... staring hard at me , as if he had been waiting for me to wake . Then I fell asleep again . I woke up after a bit , because the ache in my legs had developed into a sort of cramp . There was a glimmer of dawn above the sky- light . A ...
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... staring at us si- lently , in the special way these people have - as if we were blocks of stone or dead trees . Raymond whispered that the second Arab from the left was " his man , " and I thought he looked rather worried . However , he ...
... staring at us si- lently , in the special way these people have - as if we were blocks of stone or dead trees . Raymond whispered that the second Arab from the left was " his man , " and I thought he looked rather worried . However , he ...
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... staring hard at me , and I guessed they were the jury . But somehow I didn't see them as individuals . I felt as you do just after boarding a streetcar and you're conscious of all the people on the opposite seat staring at you in the ...
... staring hard at me , and I guessed they were the jury . But somehow I didn't see them as individuals . I felt as you do just after boarding a streetcar and you're conscious of all the people on the opposite seat staring at you in the ...
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