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The Plague which Albert Camus wrote in 1947 is a story about how the plague invaded the North African Mediterranean town of Oran. Towns people first notice something is wrong when rats invade the town and begin dying. Camus traces the town's reaction to the plague and its invasion and take over of the town itself.

In many ways The Plague seems sparse or even languid with characters drifting helplessly against the invasion of the disease. But behind this there is much for provoking thought. We are
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